Contact: eandrian(a)gmail(dot)com
Emmanuelle Andrianjafy (b. 1983, Madagascar) lives and works in Dakar, Senegal. She graduated and worked as an electrical engineer before deciding to pursue photography in 2013. Between 2015 and 2017, she attended the international photography workshop Atelier Smedsby.
Andrianjafy’s project Nothing’s in Vain was the winner of the MACK First Book Award and Contemporary African Photography Prize in 2017 and was a finalist in the Aperture Portfolio Prize in the same year.
Her work will be shown at Les Rencontres de la photographie d'Arles in 2021, was featured in PHOTO 2021 in Melbourne and at the 2020 Singapore International Photography Festival. Her work was also exhibited at the Bamako Encounters (2019), the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco (2019), Lagos Photo Festival (2018), at the New Art Exchange in Nottingham, UK (2018), Photo London (2017), the Athens Photo Festival (2017), Addis Foto Fest (2016), and the Aperture Summer Open (2015).
Nothing’s in Vain has been featured, among others, in the British Journal of Photography, Radio France Internationale, CNN, American Suburb X, Contemporary And (C&), and Zum
magazine. Andrianjafy has taken part in the events program of the Valongo Festival in Brazil in 2018, Unseen Amsterdam and Paris Photo in 2017.
Andrianjafy is currently working on a new body of work in which she returns to her native Madagascar.
After spending several years in her new home and seeing it only from the viewpoint of a car window, this photographer decided get to know her city: by walking.
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