PHOTO ESSAY: Omar Victor Diop Photographer Fine Art Fashion

THE VANITY STUDIO
Reviving the West African staged portrait tradition.

© Omar Victor Diop (2012)

OMAR VICTOR DIOP 

Omar Victor Diop was born in Dakar in 1980. Since his early days, Omar Victor Diop developed an interest for Photography and Design, essentially as a means to capture the diversity of modern african societies and lifestyles.​
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The quick success of his first conceptual project Fashion 2112, le Futur du Beau which was featured at the Pan African Exhibition of the African Biennale of Photography of 2011 in Bamako (Rencontres de Bamako) encouraged him to end his carrer in Corporate Communications to dedicate to photography in 2012.

Omar Victor Lives in Dakar, his body of work includes Fine Arts and Fashion Photography as well as Advertising Photography. He enjoys mixing his photography with other forms of art, such as costume design, styling and creative writing.


His work is interrogative and intriguing, prospective, yet a tad vintage and draws inspiration from Diop's international uplifting, as well as his african visual heritage

Exhibitions


FRANCE: Exposition Solo aux Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie dʼArles 2012 (OFF)
BELGIUM: Exposition Collective au Palais des Beaux Arts de Bruxelles (2012)
SENEGAL: Exposition Solo à lʼInstitut Français de Dakar/ Biennale de lʼArt Africain Contemporain de Dakar
(2012) (OFF)
MALI: Exposition Panafricaine de la Biennale Africaine de la Photographie de Bamako (2011)