The photographer Arturo Bibang was born in 1971, in Bata, Equatorial Guinea. He studied at the Luis-Buñuel Photography Institute, in Madrid, and later in London from 2003 to 2005. He started his professional career as a photojournalist and, while traveling, worked for numerous news agencies based in Spain, most notably for the publications El Mundo and Zero Magazine. In 2009, he returned to live in Equatorial Guinea. He has participated in numerous exhibitions there and around the world. His work has also been exhibited at Paris Photo and at the Rencontres de Bamako in Mali, in 2011.