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Club Ivoire - François Prost
Club Ivoire is a collection of photographs of Ivorian nightclub facades, taken in 2023 in the regions of Abidjan and Yamoussoukro.
These places are shown here in a neutral form, in daylight, without the luminous artifices typical of their nighttime activity, providing a unique look at Ivory Coast's club culture and its urban landscapes.
The project, composed of several hundred images, is the continuation of identical projects previously realized on the facades of festive venues in France, Spain and the United States (After Party/2011-2018/ France, Gentlemen's Club/2019/USA and Discotheque/2020/ Spain).
Texts by François Prost and Vladimir Cagnolari
14 x 23 cm, 144 pages
Hardbound in stiff cardboard
THE AUTHOR
François is a Parisian photographer and art director born in Lyon in 1980. When not working for editorial or commercial clients, he devotes his time to personal photographic projects, documenting facades of local French nightclubs, machine gun stores in the USA, Chinese scooters, or similarities between European cities and their Chinese replicas. His work has been awarded (Fidal youth prize, French art directors club), exhibited worldwide (Galerie du jour Agnès B, Villa Noailles, Rencontres d Arles, Paris Photo, Galerie du jour Tokyo, Arts souterrain Montreal, published in international press ( BBC, CNN, National Geographic, M le Monde, Sunday Times Magazine), and printed in 3 monographic books (After Party in 2018 by Headbangers Publishing, Paris China by Hoxton Mini Press in 2020 and Gentlemen s Club in 2021 by Fisheye).