The photographer Angèle Etoundi Essamba was born in Douala, Cameroon, in 1962. She moved to Paris at the age of 10, and she later studied at the Professional Dutch Photography School, in The Hague. She currently works out of Amsterdam.

Today she is the African photography artist with the most international projection. Since her first exhibit in 1985 at the Maison Descartes in Amsterdam, her work has constantly been presented at museums, fairs, biennials and galleries in Africa, Europe and the United States.

She has participated in important international contemporary art biennials, such as the Havana Biennial (1994), the Venice Biennial (1994), Dak'ART in Senegal (2002), the Bamako Photography Biennial in Mali (2001), or the Dak'ART 2008 Biennial.

In Spain, where her work has been very well received, the following exhibits have taken place: La metamorfosis de lo sublime: fotografías de Angèle Etoundi Essamba (Antonio Pérez Foundation, Cuenca); Figuraciones del árbol: fotografías de Angèle Etoundi Essamba (Ellas Crean, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid); Oratorio San Felipe Neri, Toledo; Museum of the Universidad de Alicante, Alicante; Hay Festival, Segovia; Cruz Campo Foundation, Seville; Contemporary Art Museum, Puebla de Cazalla, Seville; Safia Gallery, Barcelona; ANNTA Gallery, Madrid; Desvelos, Casa África, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

Sources:

• Artist´s official web page

• Information about the exhibit in Casa África

• Interview in the magazine Mundo Negro Digital