Boubacar Touré Mandemory is an photodidact born in 1965 in Guédiawaye who is very independent and far from the official circuits which have allowed many African artists to benefit from multiple privileges.
However, he was able to benefit from exhibitions in Europe and America (many in France).
He has also worked a lot for the press in France; which allowed him to win prizes and thus be able to do his personal photographic research.
He is a chaser of images, an urban forager seeking glimpses of everyday life such as young people on the beach, street vendors or children horsing around. He captures the teeming life of the city in low-slung, improvised shots taken from the hip or crouched at ground level. He’s style is made up of unusual angles of view, releasing shots with contradictory perspectives and the result is a dynamic image that gives the best of information in its anecdotal or essential aspect.
Mandémory self-consciously positions his practice in opposition to documentary photography, in which he discerns the specters of colonial ethnography and its oppressive fictions. His first exhibition took place in 1986 in Gorée on the theme of “Dakar fools”.