Raymond Dakoua is a photographer of Ivorian origin who lives and works in Brussels. Over the years he has been worked in partnership with several prominent cultural institutions and organisations such as the Botanique ('Effervescences' 2007), the Royal Museum for Central Africa at Tervuren (2007), the Zuiderpershuis in Antwerp (2006, 2008, 2010), and the Goethe Institut in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (2009). He has had assignments by international NGO's such as the Red Cross (Côte d'Ivoire, 2003), Handicap International (Kosovo, 2004), and Green Belgium (Morocco, 2005). His latest show'Le Djoliba et les gens du fleuve' is presently on at Zuiderpershuis, Antwerp with financial support of the Stichting Pascal Decroos.