Yassmin Forte

Place: Quelimane

Biography:

Yassmin Forte is a Mozambican photographer who has taken part in two artistic residencies supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. She won the Contemporary African Photography Prize with her work that addresses the effects of colonialism and migration through the use of family archives. Forte's images attempt to dissect and navigate the effects of colonialism and migration from her family's history using family archives and her own images to unpack her African identity. In this process, she investigates how Africans have become the result of mixtures, migrations and colonisation, their histories blended in the repetition of patterns. Forte was born in Quelimane, Mozambique in 1980.