Photographer: Dandoy, Charles (Cdt).
Title: untitled (Deux femmes Bahema).
Date: 1948.
Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Medium: unmounted gelatin silver print.
Size: 24 x 18 cm.
Condition: very good.
Reference: CDIV1126/1
Provenance: French collection.
Extra: typed note with identification in French and Dutch on the verso. Congopresse 23.62/3.
Two Bahema women in front of their hut near Geti.
Territory: Bunia.
Province: Ituri.
Commandant Charles Dandoy, of the 3rd companion of the Force Publique, was stationed successively at Kongolo and Kabinda. One can image that at the end of his military career, in 1947, Dandoy offered his services to Congopresse, the press (and propaganda) organ of the colony; in any case, his portfolio of photos ended up in the Inforcongo collection.