Sanlé Sory prints, Volta Photo studio

Exhibition by Alex Bloc, “Rivage”, on view until 28 December.

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Aminata

1/6 · 44 × 44 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper

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Le vendeur sénégalais qui fume

6/6 · 44 × 44 cm · Gelatin silver print

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Belle de jour

Printer's Proof · 44 × 44 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper

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L’élégant au nœud papillon

2/6 · 44 × 44 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper

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Joséphine

2/6 · 44 × 44 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper

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Regardez-moi bien

4/8 · 36 × 36 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper

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Fan de Jimi Hendrix

3/8 · 36 × 36 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper

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Elvis

6/8 · 36 × 36 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper

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Mon amour ma chérie

8/8 · 36 × 36 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper

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Le voyageur

7/8 · 36 × 36 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper

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La timidité

5/8 · 36 × 36 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper

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Les Trois Amis

2/8 · 36 × 36 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper · 1976

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Les Jeunes Mélomanes

3/8 · 36 × 36 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper · 1974

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Les amoureux de Sikasso Sira

1/5 · 55 × 55 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper

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Les danseurs de Shakara

4/8 · 36 × 36 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper

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Sur les marches du cinéma Sya

2/8 · 36 × 36 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper

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Yacouba Zéro

3/8 · 36 × 36 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper

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Les yeux revolver

1/8 · 36 × 36 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper

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Les deux amis au bananier

1/8 · 36 × 36 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper

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Les Deux Villageoises au Pagne

3/8 · 36 × 36 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper · 1974

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Je vais décoller 2

4/8 · 36 × 36 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper

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Le Couple Damier

1/8 · 36 × 36 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper · 1982

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La Détermination

1/8 · 36 × 36 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper · 1980

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Si tu bois beaucoup

1/8 · 36 × 36 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper

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Dans la chaleur de la nuit

1/8 · 36 × 36 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper

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Voulez-vous danser avec moi ?

1/8 · 36 × 36 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper

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La relève

3/8 · 36 × 36 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper

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Mali Djeli

4/8 · 36 × 36 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper

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Le plein chez Total, route de Banfora

1/5 · 55 × 55 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper

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Sory jour et nuit

1/8 · 36 × 36 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper

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Lucie

1/8 · 36 × 36 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper

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Le mélomane

1/6 · 44 × 44 cm · Digigraphie print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g paper

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Sanlé Sory monograph, Phaidon, front cover

Sanlé Sory monograph, Phaidon, spread with concert photographs, Echo del Africa and Youssou Diarra

Sanlé Sory, the Phaidon monograph

25 × 25 cm, 248 pages, hardback · 2026

€49.95

Sanlé Sory poster, a man in a motorcycle helmet and goggles against the polka dot backdrop of Volta Photo

Sanlé Sory poster · the motorcycle helmet

42 × 59.4 cm (A2) · Two-colour risograph on Munken 150 gsm paper

€40.00

Sanlé Sory poster, a man in a suit and round sunglasses sitting on a motorbike at Volta Photo studio

Sanlé Sory poster · the man on the motorbike

42 × 59.4 cm (A2) · Two-colour risograph on Munken 150 gsm paper

€40.00

Sanlé Sory poster · Je vais décoller 2

42 × 59.4 cm (A2) · Two-colour risograph on Munken 150 gsm paper

€40.00

Sanlé Sory poster, three young people outside the painted shopfront of the Volta Photo studio, Bobo-Dioulasso

Sanlé Sory poster · outside Volta Photo

42 × 59.4 cm (A2) · Two-colour risograph on Munken 150 gsm paper

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Le Pirate, 1974, photograph by Sanlé Sory at the Volta Photo studio

Sanlé Sory – The Volta Photo studio, Bobo-Dioulasso

Sanlé Sory is a Burkinabè photographer, sometimes cited as Sory Sanle. He was born in 1943 in Nianiagara, Upper Volta, now Burkina Faso. Trained in the late 1950s by the Ghanaian photographer Kodjo Adamako, he opened his own studio in Bobo-Dioulasso in 1960, the year of independence: Volta Photo.

For more than twenty years he photographed the people of the city there on a Rolleiflex 6×6, against painted backdrops, with a trunk of props his sitters made their own: sunglasses, transistor radio, telephone, Air Afrique flight bag, moped. At night he followed the orchestras and the dance halls, illustrated the sleeves of the city’s 45 rpm records and staged his own bals poussière in the surrounding villages.

These images are not ethnographic documents. They are negotiated performances, in which each sitter decides how they want to be seen. Unseen publicly until 1998 and rediscovered in the 2010s, his work is now held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Generation Volta, 1 August to 26 September 2026

Sakana Gallery presented Generation Volta, the first solo exhibition devoted to Sanlé Sory in the Basque Country, from 1 August to 26 September 2026, in Donostia-San Sebastián.

Born 1943 in Nianiagara, Upper Volta, now Burkina Faso
Studio Volta Photo, Bobo-Dioulasso, opened 1960
Camera Rolleiflex 6×6
Prints offered digigraphies on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 g, limited editions (numbering on each work page); one gelatin silver print
Subjects studio portraits, nightlife, orchestras, bals poussière
Collections MoMA New York, Art Institute of Chicago, Victoria and Albert Museum, LACMA, Galerie Le Château d’Eau, Toulouse
Exhibition Generation Volta, Sakana Gallery, 1 August – 26 September 2026
Other exhibitions Ideas of Africa, MoMA, New York, 2025-2026 · Volta Photo, Art Institute of Chicago, 2018 · Africa Fashion, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2022-2023 · Bobo Yéyé, Galerie Le Château d’Eau, Toulouse, 2020
Editions numbered prints, editions of 5 to 8
Monograph Phaidon, October 2026, at the gallery
Now showing Colour Years, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, 14 October 2026 to 21 February 2027

Press area and images · Exhibition catalogue (PDF) · The Phaidon monograph (€49.95)

After Generation Volta, the gallery presents Rivage, by Alex Bloc, from 2 October to 28 December 2026.