Adama Jalloh

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Adama Jalloh (born 1993) is a British photographer of Sierra Leonean heritage whose work has been exhibited at Tate Modern and the V&A Museum. She specialises in portraiture and documentary photography. [1]

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Early life and education

Jalloh was born in 1993 to Sierra Leonean parents and is based in London. [2] [3] She has a BA in commercial photography from the Arts University Bournemouth, [3] and won the British Journal of Photography Breakthrough Award for a single image by an undergraduate in 2015. [4]

Career

Jalloh's work has been included in exhibitions including "After Hours: Soul of A Nation" (2015) at Tate Modern, London (featuring her commission Familiar Faces); [5] "Celebration of African Female Photographers" (2018) at Nubuke Foundation, Accra, Ghana; [6] "No Place Like Home" Friday Late (2019), V&A Museum, London (which exhibited her project "Love Story"); [7] and "Bamako Encounters - African Biennale of Photography" (2019), Mali. [8] [4]

From October 2020 to September 2021, the Horniman Museum in London hosted the exhibition "An Ode To Afrosurrealism" comprising photographs by Jalloh and Hamed Maiye. [9] [10] [11]

Jalloh has undertaken commissions from publications and organizations including Alexander McQueen. [12] In the area of music, she has portrayed artists including Zara McFarlane, Yussef Kamaal, Shabaka Hutchings, Little Simz, Freddie Gibbs, and Mr Eazi. [3]

Jalloh's photograph of Selma Blair was the cover image of the May 2023 issue of Vogue Germany , the German edition of Vogue . [13]

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