Paul Sika, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Paul Sika

Ivorian photographer

Date of Birth: 07-Jan-1985

Place of Birth: Abidjan, Ivory Coast

Profession: photographer

Nationality: Ivory Coast

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Paul Sika is an Ivorian fashion and advertising photographer/creative director/artist, who was born in 7 January 1985, in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. He studied software engineering at University of Westminster, United Kingdom between 2003 and 2007 and became a freelance photographer in 2008.
In 2009 he was awarded a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship.
[1] His works consist of the vibrant views of Africa in Technicolor- saturation, they are in general oversaturated color shots.
In his works; he creates carefully staged environments using actors. When he discovered American artist Andy Warhol; he referred to himself as Warhol's grandson.
He said ""When I saw LaChapelle's work, I thought, this is amazing.
How can someone have such imagination? And when you go back in history, David LaChappelle was mentored by Andy Warhol.
So it was more of the artistic-father thing, that's why I referred to myself as Andy Warhol's grandson." [2] As CNN World wrote; "Ivorian artist Paul Sika is no ordinary photographer.
His "one-frame films" are eye-catching explosions of color, falling somewhere between cinema and photography. The influence of the big screen is obvious in Sika's photographs, which resemble stills from an ultra-stylish, slightly surreal movie shot in glorious Technicolor." [3]