In preparation for shooting the film 'Paris, Texas' in late 1983, director Wim Wenders traveled the West equipped with a 5 x 6 medium format camera searching out subjects and locations that would bring that desolate landscape to life.

Renowned for his penetrative self-portraiture which explores pan-African identity, photographer Samuel Fosso has led to his epithet ‘the man of a thousand faces’, is widely regarded as one of Africa’s most important contemporary artists.