Samuel Fosso
“I did not know I was making art photography. What I did know was that I was transforming myself into what I wanted to become,” the shape-shifting photographer Samuel Fosso said in an interview with the late curator and critic Okwui Enwezor. Fosso’s iconic studio self-portraits—in which the Cameroonian-born, Nigerian photographer transforms himself into such characters as a liberated American woman, a colonial-era chief,, staged portraits of Black leaders across the diaspora, and recent Polaroid studies of his emotional states.
