First UK outing for artist’s self-portraits

DOZENS of self-portraits by African artist Samuel Fosso are going on show for the first time in Britain. He started taking them as a teenager in the Central African Republic four decades ago, to use up film in his camera.

The exhibition, at the National Portrait Gallery, will also include pictures from SIXSIXSIX, right, his collection of self-portraits taken over two months in 2015.

Samuel Fosso: Self-Portraits is in Room 41 and 41a of the National Portrait Gallery from tomorrow to September 24.