In his celebrated studio Volta Photo in Bobo-Dioulasso, Sory captured in black and white, using a Rolleiflex camera, a fashionable group of young, sophisticated visitors, who relished the chance to engage in jubilant acts of self-depiction in a newly-liberated Upper Volta, now Burkina Faso.Bonner found interest in this mix of this quite composed and stylish self-representation within the portraits, but also this vibrant nightlife and certain subcultures around the music.
Malick Sidibe ignited in her the idea of self-representation and documenting herself, friends, and close relatives. “The idea of being in control of your own representation is really powerful; you’re not being observed by someone else or being made to fit into someone else’s idea.”This collection goes in a different direction from the past 3, but it’s coming from the same origin of what the brand is and represents.
Volta Jazz is accompanied by a film and photograph series created in collaboration with artist Joshua Woods. Also featuring a Spotify playlist,Volta Studio à Volta Jazz, of Burkinabe music from the 1960s and 70s compiled by Florent Mazzoleni and Grace Wales Bonner contextualises and harmonises with the collection.
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