Franck Abd-Bakar Fanny (1970– July 3, 2021) was an Ivorian photographer.

Career

Franck Fanny decided to take up photography in 2001 after a vacation to Jamaica, where his casual photographs caught the eye of many popular artists in France who were friends of his. He is entirely self taught. In 2013 Fanny was one of four artists selected to represent the

Ivory Coast Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital is Yamoussoukro, in the centre of the country, while its largest city and economic centre is ...

at the 55th Venice Biennale. In 2014 he was included in the exhibition ''The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists'', which toured to the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C.. In 2018 he received the ''Prix de l'Uemoa'' at the 13th Dak'Art festival. He died July 2, 2021, in Abidjan.

References

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