The Space Between Reaction and Regulation
Artists/Senegal
Amara Diallo
Senegal·Photography·Documentary
“I photograph the spaces between words — the moments that language cannot hold.”
Biography
Amara Diallo is an award-winning documentary photographer whose work explores identity, migration, and belonging across West Africa. Trained in Dakar and Paris, she has spent the last fifteen years photographing the interior lives of the people she comes from.
Her images have been exhibited at the Fondation Cartier (Paris), the LagosPhoto Festival, and the Aperture Gallery (New York). Her monograph “Where We Wait” (2024) was longlisted for the Prix Elysée.
She currently divides her time between Dakar and Paris, and teaches a masterclass on documentary practice at the École des Sables.
Awards & Recognition
2024
Prix Elysée — Longlisted, “Where We Wait”
2022
World Press Photo — Africa, Portrait Category
2019
CAP Prize for Contemporary African Photography
2016
LagosPhoto Festival — Emerging Artist
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- Represented by Galerie Conté, Paris