Fabrice Monteiro

FABRICE MONTEIRO - 1972, Belgium / Senegal

Fabrice Monteiro is a photographer and former model based in Dakar, Senegal. He was modelling for ten years and his vision of photography emerged from fashion photography. He was in his middle 30’ies before he engaged in photography partly inspired by his friend and mentor New York photographer Alfonse Pagano, who he met in 2007. First Monteiro did fashion photography but soon he decided to create photography that showed him. Born to a Beninese father and a Belgian mother, his childhood also was nurtured with multi-cultural, and Monteiro incorporated on one side his fashion background and on the other his African childhood, his vision of that continent, and the fact that his roots are in both African and European culture.

Monteiro is now an emerging artist based in the fields of photojournalism, fashion photography, and portraiture. His unique signature style revolves around his passion and love for the heart and the people of his country. Assumed its creative force, he is striving to build a visual world in his own multicultural image, mastering the aesthetics that allow his images to carry the weight of traditions and modernity. At AFRICA REFRAMED Monteiro shows the series A Gorean Summer, which explores the dynamics of nowadays tourism in a former slave area, and The Prophecy on pollution, on which Monteiro collaborated with costume designer Doulsy and the Ecofund organization to render the series of impactful images, striking both in their visual detail and ecological urgency.