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Namsa Leuba Author

Namsa Leuba (b. 1982) is a Swiss-Guinean photographer and art director. Leuba studied photography at ECAL, University of Art and Design in Lausanne, Switzerland, and obtained a Masters in Art Direction at ECAL. She has exhibited her artwork at the Guggenheim Bilbao, New Art Exchange (London), Hanger Art Center (Brussels), Øksnehallen (Copenhagen), Tate Modern (London), and MACAAL Marrakesh. She has also participated in festivals including Daegu Photo Biennale (Korea), Athens Photo Festival, Photoquai (Paris), and LagosPhoto (Nigeria). In 2019, Leuba will be featured in the exhibition The New Black Vanguard at Aperture in New York. Leuba is the recipient of numerous awards including FOAM Talent, Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Award, PhotoGlobal Prize, and the Planches Contact Prize. Her work has been commissioned by Nike and The New Yorker, and has been published in I-D, Numéro, KALEIDOSCOPE, Foam, Interview, Vice Magazine, New York Magazine, Wallpaper, and Libération.