Organized by Wadsworth Atheneum Director and CEO Susan Talbott, this selection of nearly 50 works examined social history, identity and race, as well as nostalgia for the traditional portraits that once defined photography, and outlines the transformation of
photographic portraiture throughout modernist movements such as Dadaism and Surrealism.
Generally, Agbodjelou's practice belongs to the tradition of
photographic portraiture, which largely expanded in West Africa
throughout the latter half of the 20th century.