African Design/2015/14 min/Reel № 15.001
ByOmar Victor Diop
Omar Victor Diop on the tradition of portraiture in Senegal
Make. Change./Recorded 2015
A close reading, kept within reach.
Omar Victor Diop takes african design as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in Senegal in 2015, the conversation is grounded in Omar's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
Senegalese photographer Omar Victor Diop is reviving the tradition of studio photography in Senegal, and recreating portraits of historical African leaders.
About the speaker
Omar Victor Diop
Dakar/Senegal
This Senegalese photographer uses the medium to capture the diversity of modern African societies and lifestyles.
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