"Stunning and vibrant, the studio portrait photography of Omar Victor Diop is breathtakingly brilliant." — Amateur Photographer

Since 2012, Dakar-born Omar Victor Diop has been hailed by the art world for his stunning, colour-saturated studio photography. His conceptual projects are primarily staged as beautifully costumed portraits and self-portraits, and focus on important historical figures and events from Black history and the African diaspora. In the three projects presented in this book, Diaspora (2014), Liberty (2017) and Allegory (2021), he revisits Black African history in poignant photographs that weave together the past and the present.

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"In 2016, the Senegalese photographer Omar Victor Diop began what he calls the “liberty project”, dramatising in his studio defining moments of black history." - Tim Adams, The Guardian
"Stunning and vibrant, the studio portrait photography of Omar Victor Diop is breathtakingly brilliant." - Amateur Photographer

Renée Mussai is a curator, writer, and art historian. For the past ten years, she has led Autograph ABP's art programs while simultaneously organising numerous exhibitions in Europe, Africa, and the United States. She is a research associate at the University of Johannesburg and a doctoral candidate in art history at University College London.