EXHIBITIONS

Collector’s choice: Abidjan in the 1970’s, Paul Kodjo photographs the Ivorian Miracle

Lydie Diakhaté

A photo exhibition curated by Isabel Wilcox and Lydie Diakhaté at the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, New York – May 2019.

Formally trained in photography and cinematography in Abidjan and Paris, and through a correspondence course with the New York Institute of Photography, Paul Kodjo pushed the boundaries of African traditional studio photography.

Kodjo’s black and white photographs echo the shifting social and familial dynamics as well as the renewal of the urban landscape shaped by modernist design and architecture.

 

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Published by Lydie Diakhaté

Film Producer & Director, Curator for Art Programs, and Art critic Lydie Diakhaté is a Film Producer and Curator for art exhibitions and cultural programs. She produces and disseminates African and African Diaspora films and other arts. Co-founder of the Real Life Documentary Festival in Accra from 2006 to 2011, she has worked with prestigious partners from Europe, Africa and the US.

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