BIOGRAPHY
Gabriel DIA was born in 1985 in SENEGAL. Exiled because of his sexuality, he arrived in France in 2003, where he still lives and works.
Engineer by training, Gabriel developed an artistic language through writing and photography.
His passion for writing resulted in his first novel,
"The
Birth of a Virgin" being published by Éditions de Montigny in 2013.
Among Dia’s visual inspirations are the works of such photographers as Dominique Issermann and Peter Lindbergh, to name but a few. But it was the discovery of
Sebastiao Slagado's works at the 2016 exhibition at the Polka Gallery that drove him to devote himself to the art of photography. In his own words, through this art he "can express much more at the same time”.
In 2018, after training at EFEET, he held his first Paris exhibition entitled "Nature". A universal work, he describes as inspired by his life, which echoes the eternal questions that everyone asks:
Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going ?
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