PRESS COMMENTARIES
„With a different look, she’s proposing another vision of senegalese rap and of its main characters…“
M.F. LÔ , LE MESSAGER
„This is a positive promotion, an initiative to be supported that goes in the interest of senegalese culture.“
Water Flow, WAGEBLE
„Beyond the aesthetic research, it’s a real documentary work that the photographer was making. These are archives which will get more and more value with time for keeping the memory of senegalese music in general and that of Hip-Hop particuarly.“
Karo Diagne, ZENITH
„These modern days poets have found in the young photographer a devoted defender.“
M.F. LÔ , LE MESSAGER
„The exhibition of the german photographer Sandy Haessner is once again dedicated to local hip hop artists. Titled «Real People in every Timezone» it is an invitation to mutual respect and tightening the cultural diversities.”
M.F Lô, LE MESSAGER
„With a particular look she immortalizes the soul of artists, bringing out the real substance of a pure and commited creation as the reflection of a diary far from the western star system.”
Stagiaire Emeric VOISIN, LE QUOTIDIEN
EXTRAITS DE PRESSE
„Avec un regard plus ou moins différent elle livre une vision autre du rap sénégalais et de ses principaux acteurs…“
M.F. LÔ , LE MESSAGER
„C’est une promotion positive, une action à féliciter qui va dans l’intérêt de la culture sénégalaise“
Water Flow, WAGEBLE
„Au-delà de cette recherche esthétique, c’est une véritable démarche documentaire à laquelle la photographe s’est livrée. Un travail d’archivage auquel le temps accordera de plus en plus de valeur. Pour la mémoire de la musique sénégalaise en général et pour celle de la musique hip hop en particulier.“
Karo Diagne, ZENITH
„Ces troubadours des temps nouveaux ont trouvé en la jeune photographe une avocate dévouée.“
M.F. LÔ , LE MESSAGER
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Sandy Haessner, born in 1977, studied graphic design at ecosign-academy in Cologne. 2001 journey to Dakar for field research for the realisation of a promotion concept for the senegalese percussion group Mama Africa followed by a photo exhibition at Passagen in Cologne. 2002 longer stay in Senegal for practical work and experience in a publicity agency Publicom and collaborations with different local musicians and artists. 2004 photo exhibitions »Modern Griots - Rapper in Dakar« in Düsseldorf and »Mama Africa - The Village« in Bad Honnef (Germany). 2005 - 2006 moving exhibitions »WORDVISION« in Senegal (5th Edition of Hip Hop Awards, Galerie MAAM TIOUTH, Goethe-Institut Dakar). Since 2005 living and working as a graphic designer/ photographer in Dakar/Senegal. 
