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IdrisBakare

Regional photographer, Dakar. Twelve years in the city, seven on the Work project, and a rule against photographing anyone who has stopped what they were doing

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Biography

Idris Bakare has lived in Dakar since 2013 and has been on the retainer since 2015. He carries the Work project: the slowest of the long projects to arrange, because nobody lets a stranger into a working kitchen for a day, and he is not interested in being a stranger.

His assignments are arranged in months, not weeks. He asks, is refused, comes back, and is eventually allowed to stand in a corner. Most of what the archive holds from inside a shift was made in that corner.


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