Omar Victor Diop
Senegal
Senegalese photographer Omar Victor Diop reframes centuries of black resistance and challenges the depictions of Africans in art. His staged photographic portraits are interpretations of how cultural events and prominent figures are portrayed throughout history. Diop’s depictions of key African figures are, as the artist has stated, intended to create “a reinvented narrative of the history of black people, and therefore, the history of humanity and of the concept of Freedom.”