The Most Famous
PHOTOGRAPHERS from Cameroon
This page contains a list of the greatest Cameroonian Photographers. The pantheon dataset contains 148 Photographers, NaN of which were born in Cameroon. This makes Cameroon the birth place of the 0th most number of Photographers.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Cameroonian Photographers of all time. This list of famous Cameroonian Photographers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Angèle Etoundi Essamba (b. 0)
With an HPI of 47.37, Angèle Etoundi Essamba is the most famous Cameroonian Photographer. Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Angèle Etoundi Essamba is a Cameroonian photographer living and working in Amsterdam. She is most famously known for her work in black and white, humanistic photography, that often focuses on the African woman as a subject matter. Essamba is one of the most acclaimed and accomplished African female photographers of her generation, who has had more than 200 exhibitions around the world, and more than 50 publications in journals and magazines. She has said that "Photography is for me a need, the need to express and to communicate. As long as the need will exist, I will create."
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Cameroonian photographers born between Infinity and 0. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Cameroonian photographers include Angèle Etoundi Essamba. As of April 2024, 1 new Cameroonian photographers have been added to Pantheon including Angèle Etoundi Essamba.
