Born in 1983 in Ivory Coast. He lives and works in Benin.

Ishola Akpo is a Beninese multimedia artist and a photographer.
His work has been regularly presented internationally (the 11th International Festival of Photography in Aleppo in Syria, at Photo Off, at the Rencontres de la photographie in Arles, at the Wiels Museum in Brussels, etc). In 2015, he enters into the collection of the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris and presents in 2016 at Lagos Photo Festival (Nigeria) the series Essential is invisible to the eyes (L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux).
For Ishola Akpo, photography represents a “means of experiencing the self and the world”. In the Daïbi photographic series on the Nago hunters of the region of Savé (Benin), he staged ‘Daïbi’ imaginary god bringing together the four natural elements : water, fire, air and earth. The exploration of cultural and cultic practices responds to the quest to reconnecting with his origins and questions in the same movement a set of reflections marked by his multiple identity.