Champs-Elysées, Paris
📸"photoromancier of this Ivorian miracle"
🎞️Pioneering African photographer working in photo-romance genre
🖼️First major solo show in France, much never exhibited before
Paul Kodjo documented Côte d'Ivoire's cultural awakening through wildly inventive photoromans: cinematic still-image love stories published weekly in the 1970s. This retrospective reveals a photographer who turned Abidjan's streets into film sets, capturing fashion, nightlife, and romantic intrigue during the country's golden age.
Rediscovered archive
African photography pioneer
Cinematic storytelling
1970s cultural history
Wednesday, October 21
Champs-Elysées, Paris
📸"photoromancier of this Ivorian miracle"
🎞️Pioneering African photographer working in photo-romance genre
🖼️First major solo show in France, much never exhibited before
Paul Kodjo documented Côte d'Ivoire's cultural awakening through wildly inventive photoromans: cinematic still-image love stories published weekly in the 1970s. This retrospective reveals a photographer who turned Abidjan's streets into film sets, capturing fashion, nightlife, and romantic intrigue during the country's golden age.
Rediscovered archive
African photography pioneer
Cinematic storytelling
1970s cultural history
Wednesday, October 21