Les Fous d´Abidjan

The madmen of Abidjan, photographed by the young talented Dorris Haron Kasco, from Ivory Coast, are the witnesses of a reality deny, of a collective blindness maintained to reject, in the common places of urban life, bridges, streets, corners, their night silhouettes.

Though they exist, are free to wonder, here is the proof of a traditional tolerance, an understanding proximity to their habits, a singular sympathy of African societies towards their loveless nudity, their obscure words, their restless bodies.

Dorris H. Kasco was born in Daloa, Ivory Coast in 1966. His exhibition « Ils sont fous, on s'en fout » (they're mad we don't care) presented in Abidjan, October 1993 is the result of three years of work, inaugurating a research on the African city and its unwanted people. fonte