Belle de Jour, 1975
Abou le Boxeur Dafin, 1968
Allo? On Arrive!, 1978
Juene Fan d'Eddy Mitchell, 1974
La Balade en Ville, 1972
Le Vendeur Sénégalais qui Fume, 1972
Les Afro-Pop, 1973
Les Deux Amies au Pagne, 1972
Yamaha de Nuit, 1972
Joany Compaoré et son Ami Guitariste, 1972
La DS et son Ombre, 1972
Mali Djeli, 1984
Le Repos des Danseurs, 1978
La Jeune Malienne, 1970
Le Pirate, 1974
Les Chausseueres de Riches, 1975
Le Pistolero, 1975
La 4L et son Maître, 1970
Regard sur le Présent, 1973
Le Reléve, 1982
Chez Inter Music, 1976
Chasse-Spleen, 1972
Le Trois Amis, 1976
Bien Cravaté, 1972
Auto Portrait au Mirroir, 1966
Danseuse de Djombolai, 1975
Les Deux Amis au Bananier, 1979
Les Deux Fermiers Peuls, 1977
Elvis, 1974
Gare à Vous!, 1978
2CV Bricoleé, 1968
Adieu Bob Marley, 1981
Je Suis dans le Coup, 1980
Les Gentlemen de Cocody, 1978
Je Vais Décoller, 1977
Jeune Danseuse de Kouroubi, 1976
Le Plus Boy, 1972
Les Amoureux Yougou Yougou, 1980
Les Jeunes Mélomanes, 1974
l'Homme en Slip, 1975
Le Commandant, 1976
Sanlé Sory – Volta Photo, 1965-85 (September 2017)
Ibrahima Sanlé Sory (b. 1943) started his photographic career in Bobo-Dioulasso, Upper Volta (today’s Burkina Faso), in 1960 – the year his country gained independence from France.
Working with his Rolleiflex twin lens medium format camera, the Volta Photo portrait studio soon became recognised as the finest in the city. Sanlé documented the rapid evolution of a post-colonial Bobo-Dioulasso, the country’s cultural and economic capital, portraying the city’s inhabitants with the wit, energy and passion that epitomises Voltaic photography’s golden age.
Sory’s photographs were featured in the recent Auto Photo exhibition at Fondation Cartier, Paris, and the Art Institute of Chicago show Volta Photo: Starring Sanlé Sory and the People of Bobo-Dioulasso. This significant exhibition brought together over 100 vintage photographs, plus objects from the Volta Photo studio, including illustrated backdrops, studio lighting, cameras and props and was the first solo exhibition of an African photographer’s work at a museum in the United States.
In addition to Fondation Cartier and Art Institute of Chicago, Sanlé's work is also held in the permanent collections of the V&A, MoMA, Minneapolis Institute of Art and North Carolina Museum of Art.
Sory Sanlé – Volta Photo 1965-85 (Reel Art Press 2017), Sanlé Sory: Volta Photo (Steidl 2018), Peuple de la Nuit (Stanley / Barker 2019).
Please mail info@davidhillgallery.net with any Sanlé Sory exhibition print enquiries.
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