Dorris Haron Kasco

Son of a diplomat, Dorris Haron Kasco felt weakened from his youth by a marginal population living difficultly in megacities African. Using his camera as a witness, between 1989-1992 he photographed the streets of Abidjan showing misfits and disinherited in the capital of Ivory Coast. More than three years of daily contact with these "madmen" who roam the streets in general indifference. If African society is rich in its friendliness and mutual aid that allows it to integrate the "abnormal", the great cities of today where mostly Africans live have broken this humanity, leaving her children at the margin.

He continued his work  with evidence in 1992-95 with street children in Abidjan, abandoned or escaped from their families. They find strength in their promiscuity and solace in alcohol fumes they inhale. Another reality of the continent, of all the megacities of the world.

As in search for his own roots, it will make in 1994 a research project on photographers of Ivory Coast, traveling throughout the country. He is thus the origin of the discovery of the photographer's work of Korhogo, Cornelius Augustt Azaglo, which he will trace the life in a movie.

He went to France, where he lives difficult, at the beginning of the civil war in Ivory Coast during 2000-2005, which tears  people of the north and poeple of the coast, some speaking of fratricide and genocide.

Revue Noire published his "Madmen of Abidjan" in 1993 in the Collection Soleil (out of print) and presented his work at the 1st Encounters of African Photography in Bamako in 1994. A monographic exhibition will be dedicated to him in 1995.

Dorris Haron Kasco is represented by
Maison Revue Noire (Paris)