Angèle Etoundi Essamba

Angèle Etoundi Essamba ɗan Kamaru ne mai daukar hoto da ke zaune kuma yana aiki a Amsterdam . An fi saninta da aikinta a cikin baki da fari, daukar hoto na ɗan adam, wanda sau da yawa yakan mayar da hankali kan macen Afirka a matsayin wani batu. Essamba na daya daga cikin fitattun mata masu daukar hoto na Afirka da suka yi fice a zamaninta, wadda ta gudanar da nune-nune sama da 200 a duniya, da wallafe-wallafe sama da 50 a cikin mujallu da mujallu. Ta ce "Hoto a gare ni wata bukata ce, bukatuwar bayyanawa da kuma sadarwa. Muddin bukatar hakan ta kasance, zan kirkira."

Tarihin Rayuwa

An haifi Angéle Etoundi Essaamba a birnin Douala na kasar Kamaru a shekarar 1962, kuma ta girma a Yaounde a harabar kakanta. A wata hira da Femi Akomolafe, ta tuna zama da ɗimbin al’umma na ƴan uwa, ƴan uwa, ƴan’uwa, ƴan uwa, ƴan uwa mata, “tare da kowa da kowa ya rayu cikin jituwa ba tare da gwagwarmaya ba”. A cikin shekaru 9-10, ta koma Paris tare da mahaifinta, inda ta rayu ta hanyar samun karatun sakandare. Sa'an nan, ta 1982, ta yi aure, kuma ta koma Amsterdam (Netherland) inda ta fara nazarin daukar hoto a makarantar Nederlandse Fotovak (Makarantar Ɗaukar Hoto ta Dutch). Daga baya Essamba ta halarci Lyceum a birnin Paris, inda ta karanci falsafa, rawa, da daukar hoto. Ta sake komawa Kamaru bayan shekaru goma sha tara na abin da ta kira "mai son gudun hijira" a cikin hirarta da Femi Akomolafe.

Tana da alaƙa da DUTA, ko Douala Urban Touch of Arts, wanda ke ba masu fasahar gani na Afirka ta Tsakiya a Douala damar raba ayyukansu. Fahimtar zamantakewar Essamba game da Turai da Afirka ya sa ta kafa gidauniyar Essamba a shekara ta 2009, inda take horar da 'yan matan kan titi a Kamaru don gina kima da kima, da kanta tana ba da darussa, da koyar da dabarun taimaka wa 'yan mata a Kamaru su inganta. yanayin rayuwarsu da samar wa kansu sana'o'i.

Aikin daukar hoto

Hotunan Essamba sun mayar da hankali kan matan Afirka, da kuma karya ra'ayin jinsi. Ta yi aiki don ƙarfafa tattaunawa tsakanin al'adu da mutane, kuma tana ba da ma'anarta daraja da murya. Sana'arta ba kawai na zamani ke tasiri ba, amma asalinta na Afirka da yanayin al'adu daban-daban na ƙasashenta. Yin la'akari da abubuwan da ta samu ta sirri, tarihi, al'ada, hangen nesa da tasirin muhalli, Hotunan Essamba sun haɗu da fasaha tare da ma'ana mai ƙarfi. Bugu da ƙari, ta ƙetare iyakoki tsakanin ɗaukar hoto na gaskiya, sharhin zamantakewa da siyasa, rubuce-rubuce da daukar hoto na yau da kullun, yayin da take nuna kyawun hangen nesa na baƙar fata, jikin mace.

Nunin ta na farko shine a cikin 1985 a Gallerie Art Collective a Amsterdam. Hotunanta na 1995 na baƙar fata da fari, White Line, an ba da kyautar Prix Spécial Afrique a Festival des Trois Continents, Nantes a cikin 1996. Ta nuna ayyukanta a nune-nune da yawa a Afirka, Asiya, Turai, Latin Amurka, Hadaddiyar Daular Larabawa da Amurka ciki har da: Bienal de La Habana (1994), Venice Biennale (1994), Johannesburg Biennale (1995), Bikin Nahiyoyi Uku (1996).

Tun lokacin baje kolin ta na farko a Amsterdam a cikin 1985, an nuna aikin Essamba a wurare daban-daban, biennales, da bajekoli. Waɗannan wuraren sun haɗa da Venice, Havana, Dakar, Johannesburg, da Bamako, tare da abubuwan da suka faru a faɗin Afirka, Turai, Amurka, Cuba, Mexico, da China. Kwanan nan, ta gudanar da nune-nunen nune-nunen ayyukanta na 'Ya'yan Rayuwa a Munich, a Gidan Tarihi na Fünf Kontinente a cikin 2018.

Hanyoyin haɗi na waje

• Angele Etoundi Essamba's Artist Website
• (in Spanish) Artículo de El País
• (in Spanish) Entrevista e información