Sanlé Sory

To mark the October 2026 pub­li­ca­tion by Phaidon of *Sanlé Sory* — the first mono­graph ded­i­cated to the work of the renowned Burkinabé pho­tog­ra­pher — A.Galerie presents a ret­ro­spec­tive fea­tur­ing a wide selec­tion of his pho­tographs, some of which have never been shown before.

Through his stu­dio por­traits and images of nightlife, Sanlé Sory has immor­tal­ized an era and a gen­er­a­tion, bear­ing wit­ness to the pro­found social and cul­tural trans­for­ma­tions in West Africa in the wake of inde­pen­dence. His pho­tographs chron­i­cle, in par­tic­u­lar, the youth of Bobo-​Dioulasso — its fash­ions, music, cel­e­bra­tions, and the emerg­ing norms of a rapidly chang­ing society.

This exhi­bi­tion will pro­vide A.Galerie with the oppor­tu­nity to present an excep­tional col­lec­tion of por­traits and scenes from daily life, high­light­ing the rich­ness and moder­nity of Sanlé Sory’s vision. Spanning the inti­macy of the stu­dio and the excite­ment of nightlife, his work stands today as a pre­cious tes­ta­ment to an era, while retain­ing an aes­thetic power and free­dom that con­tinue to res­onate with cur­rent generations.