Édouard Sailly

Édouard Sailly was born in 1941 in Abéché, to an Arab mother from Arada and a French soldier father. He obtained his primary school certificate at the boarding school for mixed-race children in Fort-Lamy, and worked as a mechanic, a veterinary nurse, a projectionist at the Le Normandie cinema and as secretary to Gabriel Lisette. A scholarship enabled him to train in Paris, from 1960 to 1962, at the Kodak laboratory and at Actualités françaises. He then made documentary short films, often ethnographic, and became the photographer of the Chadian presidents.

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• CinemaPêcheurs du ChariÉdouard Sailly · 1966Cinema