Awards
Pictures of the Year POY77 - First Place - Portrait Series
Pictures of the Year POY78 - Finalist - Photography Book of the Year
Exhibitions
Sapeurs of the Congo
Xposure International Photography Festival
Expo Centre Sharja, UAE
07.–14.02.2022
Tariq Zaidi
Martin Parr Foundation Photochat LIVE
27.04.2021, 7pm GMT
Visa pour l'Image, Perpignan, 2020
Projektion in der Chapelle de la Funeraria du Campo Santo
Reviews
Tariq Zaidi Sapeurs Ladies and Gentlemen of the Congo
UK based customers please note: Shipping to the UK is currently not possible.This title can be ordered via our UK distribution partner Turnaround. Please contact your local book store.
British photographer Tariq Zaidi presents a fashion subculture of Kinshasa & Brazzaville: La Sape, Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes (Society of Ambiance-Makers & Elegant People). Its followers are known as »Sapeurs« (»Sapeuses« for women). Most have ordinary day jobs as taxi-drivers, tailors and gardeners, but as soon as they clock off they transform themselves into debonair dandies. Sashaying through the streets they are treated like rock stars – turning heads, bringing ‘joie de vivre’ to their communities and defying their circumstances. Traditionally passed down through the male line, many Congolese women and their children have recently begun donning designer suits. As Papa Wemba (1949–2016, Congolese singer and fashion icon who popularized Sape) once said: »White people invented the clothes, but we make an art of it.«
Half-cloth hardcover
19 x 27 cm
176 pages
121 color illustrations
English
Available
ISBN 978-3-86828-973-2
2020
Artists:
Design:
SMITH
Product information "Tariq Zaidi"
UK based customers please note: Shipping to the UK is currently not possible.This title can be ordered via our UK distribution partner Turnaround. Please contact your local book store.
British photographer Tariq Zaidi presents a fashion subculture of Kinshasa & Brazzaville: La Sape, Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes (Society of Ambiance-Makers & Elegant People). Its followers are known as »Sapeurs« (»Sapeuses« for women). Most have ordinary day jobs as taxi-drivers, tailors and gardeners, but as soon as they clock off they transform themselves into debonair dandies. Sashaying through the streets they are treated like rock stars – turning heads, bringing ‘joie de vivre’ to their communities and defying their circumstances. Traditionally passed down through the male line, many Congolese women and their children have recently begun donning designer suits. As Papa Wemba (1949–2016, Congolese singer and fashion icon who popularized Sape) once said: »White people invented the clothes, but we make an art of it.«
Half-cloth hardcover
19 x 27 cm
176 pages
121 color illustrations
English
Available
ISBN 978-3-86828-973-2
2020
Artists:
Design:
SMITH
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