Education
He studied software engineering at University of Westminster, United Kingdom between 2003–2007 and became a freelance photographer in 2008.
He studied software engineering at University of Westminster, United Kingdom between 2003–2007 and became a freelance photographer in 2008.
In 2009 he was awarded a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship. When he discovered American artist Andy Warhol. He referred to himself as Warhol’s grandson.
He said "“When I saw LaChapelle’s work, I thought, this is amazing.
How can someone have such imagination? And when you go back in history, David LaChappelle was mentored by Andy Warhol. So it was more of the artistic-father thing, that’s why I referred to myself as Andy Warhol’s grandson.”
As Cable News Network World wrote.
"Ivorian artist Paul Sika is no ordinary photographer. His "one-frame films" are eye-catching explosions of color, falling somewhere between cinema and photography.
The influence of the big screen is obvious in Sika"s photographs, which resemble stills from an ultra-stylish, slightly surreal movie shot in glorious Technicolor."
November 2008 Galerie Le Laboratory, Abidjan
October 2009 Chinua Achebe Center, New New York