Born in 1982 in Burkina Faso. He lives and works between France and Burkina Faso.
Nestor Da, a self-taught photographer, has exhibited in Africa and Europe through several solo shows, notably at the Mainssieux Museum in Voiron in 2010 with his series L’ombre des images; at La Vitrine in Arles and at the CCF Georges Méliès in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in 2009.
Nestor Da found his inspiration in the materiality of a photograph and the infinite possibilities to transform an image. He constructs his work not only from his own photographs as a starting point but also with found materials. He juxtaposes, confronts, paints and overlaps them into a single image in order to deconstruct the original. Photographs are the raw material of Nestor Da’s artworks. He assembles and collects fragments to unveil a new life for the images and to build a singular universe on photographic paper.