Omar Victor Diop

Omar Victor Diop (SN, 1980) is based in Dakar (SN). His first project Fashion 2112, le Futur du Beau, was featured at the Pan African Exhibition of the African Biennale of Photography (ML, 2011). Since then, the artist has held several solo exhibitions in international venues, such as Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles (FR, 2012), Maison de l’Afrique de Paris (FR, 2022), Allianza Franceza of Malaga (ES, 2022) and Planches Contact Festival Deauville (FR, 2022). In 2023, he collaborates with Lee Schulman (creator of The Anonymous Project) and they create the series (and publication) “Being there” a mix of their both practices: Omar Victor Diop slips into the anonymous photographs in Lee Schulman’s collection of American slides from the 1950s and 1960s. In 2023, Omar Victor Diop was exhibited in Fotografiska Stockholm and Fotografiska Tallinn.