Samuel Fosso Gets a Major Solo Show of His Photos in Paris
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on June 1, 2023
In February, 2014, in the war-torn Central African Republic, Christian fighters were rampaging through a predominantly Muslim district in the capital, Bangui. The renowned Cameroonian-born portrait photographer Samuel Fosso had already fled. While looters stripped the corrugated iron roof off Fosso’s vacated studio, three men tried to save his abandoned archive.
