CHRONOLOGY     DÉBRIS DE JUSTICE     FACE À FACES     [RE-]MIXING HOLLYWOOD     WAA DAKAR [work in progress]     THÉORIE DES RÈGNES SENSIBLES

 

« Breakfast At Tiffany’s, Dakar, 2013 » from the [re-]Mixing Hollywood series by Antoine Tempé and Omar Victor Diop outfitting the Arles railway station during the Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles 2016.

[re-]Mixing Hollywood is a collaborative project between French-American photographer Antoine Tempé and Senegalese photographer Omar Victor Diop. Their series of twenty images is inspired by iconic moments of great American and European movies, with a cast featuring a representative sample of the cultural scenes in Dakar and Abidjan, where these pictures were shot, in the settings of international hotels.

After it premiered at the ONOMO Airport Hotel in Dakar in December 2013, the work has been exhibited; at Lagos Foto Festival in October 2015; at Alianza Francesa de Málaga, Spain, in March 2016; at Designing Africa 3.0 in Milano, Italy, in April 2016; at the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles, France, from July to September 2016.