Bringing together Sanlé Sory’s rarely seen colour photographs for the first time in the UK capturing daily life, youth culture and fashion in Burkina Faso.
“When you are in a place where everybody dances, you have to try to dance like everyone else!”
One of West Africa’s most prolific photographers, Sanlé Sory (b.1943, Burkina Faso) took an estimated million portraits, over six decades, showing the profound social and political changes in Burkina Faso. Colour Years captures a lesser-known chapter of his career. His colour prints, meticulously restored from the negatives in his archive, will be on show, alongside Volta Jazz record covers featuring his portraits of the influential bands that flourished after Burkina Faso’s independence.