FINALIST ELLIPSE PRIZE 2021
Khalifa Hussein
Born in 1991, Khalifa Ndiaye, also known as Khalifa Hussein, is a young photographic artist living in Dakar in the famous Médina district.
Khalifa Hussein , finalist of the ellipse prize dedicated to Senegal
He began with the practice of painting in 2014 and turned to photography from 2016. He is at once a street photographer, photojournalist, set photographer and surrealist photographer.
Always seeking to surprise the viewer, the artist plays with ambiguity around the notion of reality. Through his work, Khalifa Hussein highlights man and his environment in a surreal way, through a psychic dimension that is often uninterpretable.
Imagination defies the laws of physics
The artist reflects on things that only the imagination can truly understand, plunging viewers into eternal questioning. For the young photographer, man must be determined to acquire knowledge, moving away from ignorance. Knowledge is essential to our evolution; it opens our minds, makes us capable, gives us wings.
Since 2017, his work has been the subject of various exhibitions. In 2020, he won the Kuenyehia Prize in Ghana.
