Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

I am visiting Turner Carroll Gallery while my visit in Santa Fe. It is located at Canyon Road. There are many art galleries. Established in 1991 by Tonya Turner Carroll and Michael Carroll, Turner Carroll Gallery represents international contemporary art. The vision of the gallery since its inception is to source significant artwork from diverse areas of the world. The gallery is constantly considering the new international art movements/developments which presuppose historical significance.

Yaffah Kanfitine, Painter, Lomé

I visit the Togolese painter Yaffah Kanfitine in his small studio in Togo’s capital Lomé. He specializes in contemporary art and started with painting in the year 2000. He never attended any art school.

“I am an autodidact”, he admits. Yaffah is 32 years old and was born in a small village near Lomé. “It is very difficult to live of art”, he says. “But being a painter is just the dream of my life.” He is always looking for special topics. Now he chose education. “All the school pupils have their own history. That is what interests me.”

Some years ago he taught art in the school of his village. “The kids told me their stories and I got the inspiration for that project.”
Yaffah had already expositions of his work in other West African countries, as in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso.
“For the future I love to exhibit more internationally, specially also in Europe and USA.”