# Depara

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{{Short description|Angolan Congolese photographer (1928–1997)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Depara
| other_names        = Jean Depara
| birth_name         = Lemvo Jean Abou Bakar Depara
| birth_date         = 1928
| birth_place        = Kboklolo, Angola<ref name="African Art Now" />
| death_date         = 1997
| death_place        = [Kinshasa](/source/Kinshasa), DR Congo<ref name="African Art Now" />
| occupation         = Photographer
}}
'''Lemvo Jean Abou Bakar Depara''', commonly known as '''Depara''' (1928–1997), was an Angolan-born photographer, who worked in the [Democratic Republic of Congo](/source/Democratic_Republic_of_Congo).<ref name="African Art Now">{{Cite web |title=Lemvo Jean Abou Bakar Depara |url=https://africa.si.edu/exhibits/pigozzi/depara.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927230415/https://africa.si.edu/exhibits/pigozzi/depara.html |archive-date=September 27, 2011 |website=African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection |publisher=National Museum of African Art}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Pigozzi |first=Jean |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mugxAQAAIAAJ |title=100% Africa |last2=Magnin |first2=André |last3=Bilbao |first3=Museo Guggenheim |date=2006 |publisher=Tf Editores |isbn=978-84-96209-68-8 |pages=153 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fGxLAQAAIAAJ |title=國際攝影雜誌 (International Photography Magazine) |date=2007 |publisher=Ivory Press |volume=5 |pages=254 |language=en}}</ref>

== Career ==
Depara purchased his first [video camera](/source/video_camera) to record his wedding in 1950; four years later, he was made official photographer to the [Zairian](/source/Zaire) singer [Franco](/source/Franco_(singer)). In 1975 he became official photographer to the [National Assembly of Democratic Republic of Congo](/source/National_Assembly_of_Democratic_Republic_of_Congo), and also took many photographs of the social scene of [Kinshasa](/source/Kinshasa) during the period.<ref name="African Art Now" />  

At the time of his death in 1997, he left a large archive of untitled negatives; many of these have been reprinted and titled for sale since his death. Some of Depara's work is in the collection of [Jean Pigozzi](/source/Jean_Pigozzi).<ref name="African Art Now" />

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Category:20th-century male artists
Category:People from Portuguese Angola
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