Charlotte Yonga

Photographer & Visual Artist

Charlotte Yonga (b. 1985) is a Franco-Cameroonian photographer and visual artist based between Paris and Barcelona. Her multidisciplinary work explores identity, otherness, and displacement, revealing the tensions between strength and vulnerability.

Rooted in a dramaturgical approach, she challenges dominant narratives and reimagines representation through Black, feminine and African perspectives. Her practice seeks to deconstruct stereotypes and offer a nuanced, reparative vision of culture and identity.

Through photography, drawing, and installation, she explores the emotional textures of love, memory, mental health, and human connection. Her work often combines human figures with natural and cultural elements, creating a dialogue between personal experience and collective memory.

Since 2021, she has been developing an ongoing photographic series on love, addressing tenderness, nostalgia, and ambiguity as elusive yet powerful forces within human relationships.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Palais de Tokyo, Circulation(s), Paris Photo, and Art-O-Rama (France); 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair (London), PhotoWorks, and Marker’s Yard (UK); the Casablanca Biennale (Morocco), LagosPhoto (Nigeria), Bandjoun Station and the National Museum of Cameroon (Yaoundé), Fondation H (Madagascar), Spazju Kreattiv (Malta), Landskrona Foto Festival (Sweden), and the 101 Art & Design Center (China).

She holds a degree from the École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy (ENSAPC). Through her practice, Charlotte opens up a space for reflection on the invisible threads that shape our relationships, perceptions, and ways of seeing—both individually and collectively.

Selected Features

TV5 Monde Afrique, Fondation H, It's Nice That, booooooom, Nataal...

Selected clients

Airbnb, Clinique, Oatly, SFR, Les petits Frères des Pauvres, Ouï fm...

Selected Publications

M Le Monde, Libération, Marie Claire, Gaze, Hey Barista, Smithsonian, NEON, L'Obs, Causette...