About: Namsa Leuba

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Namsa Leuba (born 1982) is a Swiss-Guinean art director and photographer. She studied at Swiss schools and afterwards at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her work mainly focuses on the African identity as seen through Western eyes, due to her Western education. According to an interview with “My Art Guides”, she became interested in the animistic side of Guinean culture as a child. She even visited marabouts because of her intense interest in supernatural side to Guinea. She has had her work published in several magazines including I-D, Numéro, KALEIDOSCOPE, Foam, the Financial Times Magazine, Interview, Vice Magazine, New York Magazine, Wallpaper*, Libération, British Journal of Photography, and European Photography. In 2010, she won her first prize from Planche(s) contact fest

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  • Namsa Leuba née en 1982 à Neuchâtel en Suisse, est une photographe helvéto-guinéenne. Son travail se concentre principalement sur l'identité africaine, qu'elle interroge et examine quelquefois avec un regard d'occidentale. En 2010, elle remporte son premier prix au festival de photographie Planche(s) contact de Deauville. (fr)
  • Namsa Leuba (born 1982) is a Swiss-Guinean art director and photographer. She studied at Swiss schools and afterwards at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her work mainly focuses on the African identity as seen through Western eyes, due to her Western education. According to an interview with “My Art Guides”, she became interested in the animistic side of Guinean culture as a child. She even visited marabouts because of her intense interest in supernatural side to Guinea. She has had her work published in several magazines including I-D, Numéro, KALEIDOSCOPE, Foam, the Financial Times Magazine, Interview, Vice Magazine, New York Magazine, Wallpaper*, Libération, British Journal of Photography, and European Photography. In 2010, she won her first prize from Planche(s) contact festival de photographie de Deauville. The subjects of the majority of her work are non-professional individuals. She claims that she does much of her casting on the street. In 2021, her work was exhibited at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in a show titled Crossed Looks. It was the first solo exhibition of Leuba's work in the United States and included photographs taken in Guinea, South Africa, Nigeria, Benin, and Tahiti. (en)
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  • Namsa Leuba née en 1982 à Neuchâtel en Suisse, est une photographe helvéto-guinéenne. Son travail se concentre principalement sur l'identité africaine, qu'elle interroge et examine quelquefois avec un regard d'occidentale. En 2010, elle remporte son premier prix au festival de photographie Planche(s) contact de Deauville. (fr)
  • Namsa Leuba (born 1982) is a Swiss-Guinean art director and photographer. She studied at Swiss schools and afterwards at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her work mainly focuses on the African identity as seen through Western eyes, due to her Western education. According to an interview with “My Art Guides”, she became interested in the animistic side of Guinean culture as a child. She even visited marabouts because of her intense interest in supernatural side to Guinea. She has had her work published in several magazines including I-D, Numéro, KALEIDOSCOPE, Foam, the Financial Times Magazine, Interview, Vice Magazine, New York Magazine, Wallpaper*, Libération, British Journal of Photography, and European Photography. In 2010, she won her first prize from Planche(s) contact fest (en)
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  • Namsa Leuba (fr)
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