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delphine diaw dialloPHOTOGRAPHER
new yorkA graduate from the Académie Charpentier School of Visual Artin Paris in 1999, she worked in the music industry for sevenyears. Disillusioned by a world driven by mass consumption,she left her work environment and found refuge in Saint-Louis,Senegal, hometown of her father. She discovered herextended family and started portraying them. Delphine thencreates the Magic photo studio, homage to Malick Sidibé’sphoto studio. She adds collages, drawings and colors to herphotographs, to underline the emotions of her subjects and tellthe whole story. In 2008, the French-Senegalese photographermoves to New York to live her artistic life, considering thatParis is not the right place for an artist to emerge. She realizesthat mixing mediums of expression is a powerful way todescribe the world she is trying to capture. Delphinejuxtaposes reality with imaginary conscience; fashion withdocumentary photographs; tradition with modernity. On a tripback to Paris, she met Peter Beard and shares her first seriesof mixed media portraits. Impressed with her creativity andspontaneity, he offers her to collaborate for the Pirelli calendarphoto shoot in Botswana. During her botswanian trip, sheexperiences a new environment in which people co-exist withwild animals. Inspired by their courage and modesty, shedecides to return to Senegal. While shooting the streets ofSaint-Louis, Delphine praises the simple life of her charactersand turns them into heroic figures. She creates theRenaissance series. Her most inspirational journey to date,takes place in a very different setting. In August 2010, shetravels to the Crow country. It opens her to a completely newworld, a greater and new vision. She witnesses a progressiveresistance among the Crow members, reviving their traditionsand rituals. Delphine is amazed by their hospitality and theirkindness, a very different experience from the negative imageof Native Americans often broadcasted by media. Besides thespirituality and symbolism of their dances, she feels the urge toportray family reunions. The elders recount stories to theyoung crowd, leaving their western clothes behind to dress likereal Indians. Captivated by their spirituality and their pride, shetakes part in this celebration with a refreshing and distinctiveeye. Delphine Diaw Diallo is transformed, she believes her artconnects with spirits and hopes spirits will help detach humansfrom the material world. In 2012, Smithsonian named Delphine
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Diallo one of Photography’s Emerging Stars.
In 2013, Delphine Diallo named one of PDN’S 30: New andEmerging Photographers to Watch.
Clients / PressThe New Yorker Magazine, The Smithonian magazine,Essence, Nike, Converse, Anomaly, United Nations, Time inc,WAD Magazine, Studio Museum in Harlem, Y&R, BBH
ExhibitionKASHER POTAMKIN GALLERY Intangible beauty part I & II, September - october 2014
PHOTOVILLE September 2014 PORTRAITS by Delphine Diallo curated by Jamel Shabazzpresented by United Photo Industries
STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM Harlem Postcards, summer 2014
MOCADA, NY, Feb 14 - May 26, 2013 Emerging: Visual art & Music in a Post Hip Hop Era
Kajahl Benes, Kudzanai Chiurai, Delphine Diaw Diallo, ModouDieng, Hassan Hajjaj, dream hampton, Pieter Hugo, Hycide,Kahlil Joseph, Terence Nance, Cinque Northern, Storyboard P,Ebony G. Patterson, Hank Willis Thomascurated by James Bartlett
BAM, NY Jan 16-feb 28, 2013 - Natman room "Freedom ride"
Derrick Adams, Simone Leigh,Mickalane Thomas incollaboration with David Antonio Cruz, Kimberly Becoat, Kenya(Robinson)Delphine Diaw Diallo, Ali Santana ,Oasa DuVerney, Hank WillisThomascurated by Dexter Wimberly
ADDIS FOTO FESTIVAL, EthiopiaDecember 7 , 2012 " Highness " -" Magic Photo Studio"
GOETH INSTITUT ( Off Dakar Biennale)May 5 - Jun 15, 201" Africa, see you see me" - Collective show - Dakar, Senegal
M.I.A GALLERY Solo show , SeattleApril 5 - May 12th, 2012" the Great Vision"
BENRIMON CONTEMPORARY, NYMarch 1 - 14 April 2012"Configured"Njideka Akunyili, William Cordova, Delphine Diallo, LaToyaRuby Frazier, Barkley L. Hendricks, Duron Jackson, HedyKlineman, Dave McKenzie, Fahamu Pecou, Xaviera Simmons,Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry, Mickalene Thomas,Stacy Lynn Waddell and Paula Wilson.
www.beardencentennial.orgartist selects for the Romare Bearden twentieth centuryamericanmaster.
JENKINS JOHNSON GALLERY , NYJanuary 12 - February 2008 2012" VOICE OF HOME" Noel Anderson, Kajahl Benes, Elaine Bradford,ElizabethColomba, Jamal Cyrus, Delphine Diallo, Nathaniel Donnett, ZakOvé, Lisa Schmaltz, Leslie Smith III, Devin Troy Strother,Felandus Thames, and Christine Wong Yap
CURATE NYC December 2011
"Online exhbitions - "Guest Curated shows + judges top 150 "Curators :Lowery Stokes Sims - The Museum of Arts andDesign - Kira Pollack - Director of Photography - TIMEmagazine, Skylight Gallery - Danielle Burns - The HoustonMuseum of African American Culture.
delphine diallo [email protected]
MOCADA, NYNovember 2011- February 25, 2012 - LAMBENTFOUNDATION" Pixelating: Black image in the age of digital reproduction"
THE UNITED NATIONS, NYOctober 2011"The African Continuum"
OPERA GALLERY, NYAugust 2011"Selected mixed media artwork"
MUSEUM OF ART AND DESIGN, NYMay 3 - October 2, 2011Stephen Burks "Are You A Hybrid?"
FONDAZIONE STUDIO MARAGONI & OFFICINEFOTOGRAPHICHE , Rome - italiaApril 2011"Africa: See You, See Me" Curated by Awam Ampka from NYU
RUSH ART GALLERY , NYMarch 2011 "The Black Portrait",Curated by Hank Willis Thomas and Natasha L. Logan
MUSEU DA CIDADE, Lisboa, PortugalOctober 2010"Africa: See You, See Me"Curated by Awam Ampka from NYU
