Press – Fabrice Monteiro

This Photographer’s ‘Doll Test’ Reveals How Racism Works Through Visual Culture

In a series of portraits, Fabrice Monteiro revisits a famous psychological investigation from the 1940s on the ways in which racism affects self-perception from a perturbingly young age.

Fragments from an interview in the magazine AERE VIEW, August 2013

Fabrice Monteiro (born in 1972 in Belgium, lives in Dakar) is an emerging artist based in the fields of photojournalism, fashion photography, and portraiture. Born to a Beninese father and a Belgian mother, his childhood is nurtured...

Fabrice Monteiro’s best photograph: a spirit emerges from a rubbish dump in Senegal

Outside Dakar, Senegal’s capital, is a rubbish dump with its own name: Mbeubeuss. The land on which it sits was once flat swampland. It began as a landfill site in 1968; today, it is a mountain of rubbish.

The Prophecy': Photographer captures terrifying vision of future

An exhausted spirit-like creature, emerging from the depths of the ocean, is weighed down by the tons of decay and waste that make up her long gown. This is just one of 9 photos that appear in "The Prophecy," a haunting photo series created by Belgian-Beninese photographer Fabrice Monteiro and a Senegalese stylist known as Doulsy.

Fabrice Monteiro & His Multicultural Lens

The stunning production of the photographer Fabrice Monteiro is intrinsically multicultural, and his works are a bridge between Africa and Europe, as well as between the worlds of fashion photography and street photography. Monteiro’s original reuse of the local culture allows him to better convey the message of his projects to local people.

Finding Gods and Monsters on the World’s Garbage Heap

Fabrice Monteiro’s series The Prophecy began in 2013 when the Belgium-born but Benin-raised photographer returned to West Africa after 20 years abroad. The Prix Pictet nominee was excited to go surfing, but was shocked by the severity of the region’s pollution: its seas, wetlands, crop fields and cities strewn with electronic waste...

Fabrice Monteiro (Belgian-Beninese, b. 1972)

This is what a human being can do to another human being in the name of nothing else but profit. And all the rest has been built up to justify the fact that you can use other human beings like you use animals in the fields.

Fabrice Monteiro | Summertime and The Living is Easy on Gorée Island

‘Joie de vivre’, the French phrase that has comfortably made its way into the English language. As in its original meaning, we English speakers also use it to convey that carefree...

Gods of garbage – in pictures

Fabrice Monteiro travelled to the most polluted places in Africa and created terrifying characters who roamed their midst dressed in eerie debris. They are spirits, he says, on a mission to make humans change their ways

By Iron Possessed: Fabrice Monteiro's Maroons: The Fugitive Slaves

At first glance, the still photographs by Fabrice Monteiro in his series Marrons, Les esclaves fugitifs (Maroons: The Fugitive Slaves) are the stuff of nightmare.

Fabrice Monteiro’s Amazing Images of Brown. Fugitive Slaves In Slave Torture Devices

I found these photos several years ago and found them quite disturbing and painful to view. Years later and after much additional research...