My VISION.

My Practice

I focus my photography practice on forms of identity manifestation and intersectionality. Particularly interested in concrete and ongoing ways to value the full place that immigrant and NACD (Aboriginal, Black and Coloured) communities occupy in Canadian society and the diversity and richness of their contribution to the transformation of  the spaces they call home.

how I work

Formally, I integrate two types of practice; documentation and transmission. My work is the product of a desire to document and transmit the historical heritage of contemporary immigrant and PANDC communities.  My style is defined by live shots, I seek the total spontaneity of creation through the creative force of sensitivity. This work is at the intersection of the photographers Dorothea Lange and James Barnor. As for my writings, they are then about the game of integrating this immigrant heritage into the common heritage. My approach is inspired by authors such as Lawrence Hill and Dany Laferrière, who draw on everyday life and "images of the real" in order to share long-absent voice through their work.

DJRIBO : the anthology

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Statement

My work is developed through the transcription of my most banal interactions from which I produce several photographs that will serve to reinforce the feeling of belonging and the identification of immigrant communities with the collective history as did the photographers of Ghanaian and Ivorian, Paul Kodjo and Kwame Brathwaite as part of their countries independence.

Lately I have been observing the people around me. The unconscious manifestations present in their gestures have been the source of inspiration for the production of a photo series on community involvement and civism.

Still Life Archive

PUBLIC HEALTH

Let Her DIE (trailer)

by dr tEGUEST GUERMA

Litterature : immigration francophone

hISTOIREs D'IMMIGRATION (LA CHRONIQUE)

Éditions david x unique fm

Magazine :refugee crisES

La FCFA et le Conseil économique et social d'Ottawa Carleton (CESOC) ont mandaté Ama Ouattara pour aller à la rencontre d’une famille qui a récemment élu domicile au Canada( ete 2022). C'est à Cornwall, dans l’Est-Ontarien que la famille Wilondja originaire du congo a posé ses valises, après vingt ans d’attente procédurale auprès de la Commission de l’immigration et du statut de réfugié.

fcfa 

The Feast of the diaspora

Multidisciplinary project on oral narratives of BIPOC in Canada.

Context : Memories of food at home, ideals of good food, and the food available in a new country shape immigrants' food experiences.

This podcast aims to examine the dynamic relationships between food, social identity and the experience of the Afro-descendant immigrant from the former French colony in Ontario. As a stage of cultural and spatial transition, the immigration process introduces possibilities for change, but also resistance to new habits, behaviors and cultural experiences.

Lead : Ama Ouattara

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