Born: Died: Gender: Male Active: Equatorial Guinea / Gabon
One of the earliest African photographers. He was commissioned in the 1870s by the Spanish governor Diego Santisteban to take a series of fourteen photographs of Santa Isabel, Fernando Po's capital. Fernando Po is now known as Bioko or Bioco and is a part of Equatorial Guinea in West Africa. His photographs were shown at colonial exhibitions in Gabon (1887) and Paris (1900).
There are examples of his work in the British Museum.
Francis W. Joaque
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