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This project was selected by Artphilein Editions to be awarded with the publication of this photobook as special prize within the UP21 Unpublished Photo 2021 contest Lugano at Musec Museo delle Culture
each set comprising a numbered (1-20) and signed copy of the book together with one of twenty prints (15 x 18 cm
On one level
but upon closer observation are complementary and share the same investigative impulse
Shot between 1971 and 1983
Prai$e the Lord Artist's Books This project was selected byThere is only one photograph of Sheikh Amadou Bamba, the founder of the Mouride sect of Islam. He is standing beside a wooden wall, wearing a white kaftan. It is sunny: he squints into the light. And although his face is partially concealed, his eyes are visible. He stares directly into the camera this portrait is probably the most reproduced image in Senegal. Orginally taken in 1917, it is replicated across every imaginable surface in the country.
