Franck Abd-Bakar Fanny Explained

Franck Abd-Bakar Fanny (December 21, 1970 – July 3, 2021) was an Ivorian photographer, network engineer and entrepreneur.^[1]

Career

Franck Fanny decided to take up photography in 2001 after a vacation to Jamaica, where his casual photographs caught the eye of many popular artists in France who were friends of his. He is entirely self taught.

In 2013 Fanny was one of four artists selected to represent the Ivory Coast at the 55th Venice Biennale.^[2]

In 2014 he was included in the exhibition The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, which toured to the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia,^[3] and the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C..^[4] In 2018 he received the Prix de l'Uemoa at the 13th Dak'Art festival.^[5]

He died July 2, 2021, in Abidjan.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Heaven . africa.si.edu.
2. Web site: Africa in Venice Frieze . Frieze . en.
3. Web site: The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists at the SCAD Museum of Art . DAILY SERVING . 2021-08-17 . 2021-08-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210817051252/https://www.dailyserving.com/2014/11/the-divine-comedy-heaven-purgatory-and-hell-revisited-by-contemporary-african-artists-at-the-scad-museum-of-art/ . dead .
4. Web site: Loria . Keith . Visions of afterlife at National Museum of African Art . Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay News . 29 July 2015.
5. Web site: Le monde de l’art en deuil : Le photographe Franck Fanny n’est plus - Abidjan.net News . news.abidjan.net . fr.
6. Web site: Décès de Franck Fanny, disparition brutale d'un photographe autodidacte 7info . 7info . fr-FR . 3 July 2021.