Franco-Beninese, Laeïla Adjovi grew up in several African countries. At 20, during an internship in New Delhi in an Indian NGO, she took her first steps in photography. She then began to learn the techniques of analog photography and the laboratory. In 2006, diplomas in political science and journalism in her pocket, she worked in the press in Paris, then in the Pacific, in New Caledonia. There, she worked for the press and then for television, and embarked on a photographic project on areas of precarious housing, also called “squats”. Follower of documentary or reportage photography that would create a link between social strata, between cultures and between worlds, she also develops an artistic approach that combines painting, drawing and manipulation in the dark room. Always between two supports, it is to go and make radio in Senegal that she returns to settle on the continent. Reporter, photojournalist, visual artist, she has lived and worked in Dakar since 2010.