Jacques Toussele

Jacques Toussele was a Cameroonian photographer from Bamessingué near Mbouda in the Western Region of Cameroon.

Jacques Toussele in his last studio in Mbouda

There are several variant spelling of his Bamiléké name: Toussile, Tousellé, Tousselle and Touselle are all attested.[1][2][3][4] The spelling on his identity card is Toussele without an accent (but pronounced in the French fashion <Tousselé>, phonetically [tus sεlε]). When his work was exhibited at the Pitt Rivers Museum, an accented variant of his name was used.

Early life

Jacques Toussele was born in 1939[1] at Bamensingue.

Career

The first Mbouda-born photographer working in Mbouda, he was taught photography by a Nigerian-born photographer. He worked in Bamenda at the height of the troubles but then returned to Mbouda where he worked since mid 1960s until his eventual retirement in the early 2000s. He died in Douala on Friday 30 June 2017.

Notable achievements

His work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and Carleton College and is included in an exhibition at the Fowler Museum, Los Angeles opening late 2017.[5]

A small exhibition of his work was held at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford curated by Philip Grover & Chris Morton "Studio Cameroon: the everyday photography of Jacques Toussellé". 9 Nov 2007–29 July 2008.

His work was the subject of a major archiving project as part of the British Library’s Endangered Archive Programme.[6] Scanned copies of his work is available online via the BL link

Examples
Toussele Jacques with plate camera 1965
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References
  1. McKeown, Katie (2010-04-26). "Studio Photo Jacques: A Professional Legacy in Western Cameroon". History of Photography. 34 (2): 181–192. doi:10.1080/03087290903361506. ISSN 0308-7298.
  2. Zeitlyn, David (2010-10-14). "Representation/Self-representation: A Tale of Two Portraits; or, Portraits and Social Science Representations". Visual Anthropology. 23 (5): 398–426. doi:10.1080/08949460903472978. ISSN 0894-9468.
  3. Zeitlyn, David (2010-12-01). "Photographic Props / The Photographer as Prop: The Many Faces of Jacques Tousselle". History and Anthropology. 21 (4): 453–477. doi:10.1080/02757206.2010.520886. ISSN 0275-7206.
  4. Zeitlyn, David (2015). "16. Archiving a Cameroonian photographic studio". In Maja Kominko (ed.). From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme. Open Book Publishers. pp. 531–546. doi:10.11647/obp.0052.16. ISBN 978-1-78374-062-8.
  5. "African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization and Style March 26–July 30, 2017" (PDF). Fowler Museum. 2017. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
  6. "EAP054: Archiving a Cameroonian photographic studio". Endangered Archives Programme. British Library. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
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