People nominee

After a long walk to Bigaho Falls I saw my love one lie down on a rock. The only rock lit by a ray of sunshine. I immediately had a vision of John Everett Millais' painting Opelia and captured this moment. It may seem staged, but far from it, a quite natural moment given by the nature of things.

Hussein Makke was born in 1995 in Beyrouth from a Lebanese father and a Filipino mother, he moved shortly after birth to Ivory Coast and spent his childhood in the city of Abidjan before going to Lebanon in 2015 to pursue his studies in Cinema. Due to his mixed culture, and his relationship growing up around and mentored by Joana Choumali, Dorris Haron Kasco, Seibou Traore and his dad Abbas Makke, Identity and Self-Knowledge plays a big part in his work.



Exhibition :
-French Cultural Center in Abidjan (CI) 2012 and 2014
-Zenith Class in Los Angeles (USA) 2019
-Praxis Gallery Minneapolis (USA)
-Art Space Huntington Park Los Angeles (USA) 2023

Nominee for the 6th/7th/9th fine art photography awards