Delphine Diaw Diallo Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1977 -

Delphine Diallo , or Delphine Diaw Diallo , born in 1977 in Paris, is a French - Senegalese photographer. First settled in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal , she lives and works in New York.

Born in 1977 from a Senegalese father and a French mother and painter, she chose an artistic career and graduated in 1999 from the Charpentier Academy , visual arts category 1 , 2 .

She then worked for seven years in the music industry, then started in the field of photography.

Returning to part of her origins, she moved to Saint-Louis-du-Senegal , where her father is from. She creates a photographic studio there and begins by photographing the members of her family and realizing a series baptized "Renaissance" 3 . The studio is named Magic, a discreet tribute to the Malian photographer Malick Sidibé , whose influence on her early work she claims, and her famous studio Malick.

In 2008, she moved again and moved to New York . She meets Peter Beard . Interested in his creativity, he offers to collaborate on the Pirelli calendar in Botswana .

In 2012, she was mentioned as one of the top 26 emerging photographers of the ICP , and by the Smithsonian Magazine as one of the emerging stars of photography, then in 2013, by PDN , as one of the 30 new photographers and emerging to watch 6 , 4 .

His prints are traded in New York around $ 2,500.