THE ROBERT GIARD GRANT FOR EMERGING
LGBTQ+ PHOTOGRAPHERS

Elijah Ndoumbe, 2023 Finalist

Elijah Ndoumbe is a multidisciplinary artist, storyteller, dream-weaver, and collaborator. They engage lens-based work as a practice of care that is capable of producing a radical-care-politic in community, in collaboration, in collective production and intentionality. Feelings of breath, body, space, desire, music and movement are key elements to their process of image-making. Their work has screened at the Sundance Film Festival (2022) and won awards at NewFest (2021) and the Durban International Film Festival (2022). Ndoumbe was a 2021 artist in residence at Black Rock Senegal, and exhibited photographs paired with sonic soundscapes at the 2022 DAK’ART Biennale as part of Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock 40 exhibit. They exhibited at the Rencontres de Bamako African Photography Biennale (2022-2023), participated in CPH:LAB via CPH:DOX (2022-2023), and exhibited in a group show as a winner of queer art prize Utopi·e at the Magasin Generaux in Paris, France (2023). They are a recipient of the 2023 Bourse ADIAF Émergence, and are currently in development on a project with artists between France, Senegal, and the US.

You can learn more at their website.