Namsa Leuba’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Namsa Leuba (born 1982) is a Swiss Guinean art director and photographer. She studied at Swiss schools and afterwards at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her work mainly focuses on the African identity as seen through Western eyes, due to her Western education. According to an interview with “My Art Guides”, She became interested in the animistic side of Guinean culture as a child. She even visited marabouts(kind of witches) because of her intense interest in supernatural side to Guinea. She has had her work published in several magazines including I-D, Numéro, KALEIDOSCOPE, Foam, Interview, Vice Magazine, New York Magazine, Wallpaper*, Libération, British Journal of Photography, and European Photography. In 2010, she won her first prize from Planche(s) contact festival de photographie de Deauville. The subjects of the majority of her work are non-professional individuals. She claims that she does much of her casting on the street.