Assane, based in Brooklyn, New York, hails from Northern Senegal. Driven by a desire to document the evolution, and rapport between tradition, culture, and self, his work has been regarded as an influential attempt to craft a distinct visual language for a new and emerging generation of photographers. Holding photography and fashion as primary prisms in his artistic contemplation, Assane is a habitual of Photo-Vogue and a coveted alumn of the International Center of Photography.
With a deep care for the subjects he photographs, and their relationship with the physical and temporal spaces they occupy, Assane explores through his work the subjectivity and influence of communities who, though fully rooted in a mix of local and international cultural references, are often deprived of an opportunity to define and name their valuable contribution to the world. Assane’s work has been exhibited at The Africa Center, the International Center of Photography, PhotoVille, the Soho House, the Costandino Gallery, the Der Grief Gallery, the WildProject Gallery, Static Art Collective, and the Savant Studio Gallery.
Emerging from a Toucouleur and Senegalese cultural context, Assane is now rooted in an American reality from where he enlists his relationship with the local and the global to inform his exploration of self, offering a new take on the plural and the multiple. His work has been featured in Vogue, CBS, Radio France Internationale (RFI), Guzang Magazine, Canva Rebel, New Wave Magazine, Bloom, StyléCruze France, Out-And-Out Magazine, Selin Magazine, 1723 Magazine, and The Harlem Times.