/ West Africa
Abidjan is our foothold in Côte d'Ivoire. It is where, on 18 and 19 October 2021, we covered the bootcamp of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie's « Les Pionnières de l'entrepreneuriat francophone » programme — the in-person gathering that launched a project later rolled out across eleven countries. We have also worked here for Digital Africa, Investisseurs & Partenaires, Equipop, Expertise France, AEDIB, Socium and African Business Heroes.
Request a quoteClients we have worked for in Ivory Coast
/ 01 — Services
Summit and bootcamp coverage, entrepreneur portraits, project reportage. Abidjan concentrates West Africa's entrepreneurial gatherings, and our photographers cover dense formats here: several days, several rooms, dozens of participants to identify by name.
Corporate testimonial videos, showcase films, training capture. For the OIF, our coverage of the Abidjan bootcamp became the foundation for a series of twenty-four testimonial videos later produced across eleven countries.
/ 02 — Assignments
/ 03 — Images and films
/ 04 — Cities covered
Abidjan
On site within 24 hours · 9 AfroCréateurs
/ 05 — Shooting logistics
Seasons and light. Two rainy seasons: the main one from May to July, a shorter one in October and November.
Distances and travel. Our creators are based in Abidjan and travel out from the economic capital. Yamoussoukro, the political capital, is about two hundred and forty kilometres away by motorway; Bouaké three hundred and fifty; San-Pédro over three hundred along the coast. Côte d'Ivoire has a more usable road network than most of the region, which makes upcountry assignments easier to plan than elsewhere.
/ 06 — Creators on location
Our Ivorian AfroCréateurs are based mainly in Abidjan and work across the country. They operate in French and in local languages. Equipment is on hand locally — camera bodies, lighting, sound, stabiliser, drone, studio and neutral backdrop — with nothing shipped from abroad.
No individual profiles are published. We select the most relevant creator for the assignment; the client does not approve them before the shoot.
/ 07 — Testimonials
La capacité d'AFROTO à mobiliser des photographes et vidéastes professionnels sur le continent est une réelle plus-value pour l'OIF dans le cadre de ses projets multi-pays afin d'obtenir des outils de communication homogènes pour l'ensemble de ses zones d'intervention.
/ 08 — Budget
€400 – €600
Indicative estimate: shooting only, excluding travel and post-production.
/ 09 — Questions
We do. You describe what you want produced; we mobilise the AfroCréateur whose specialism and location match the brief. There is no casting for you to run and no supplier for you to chase down locally.
Yes. The OIF bootcamp in Abidjan ran over two days, with photo and video in parallel. On that format we agree in advance which moments cannot be missed and which people must be identified by name — that is what prevents discovering afterwards that a speaker was never photographed.
Yes, and that is the case for all three of our Ivorian assignments. Clients based in Abidjan usually distribute across the continent, so we shoot in both French and English, and subtitling is handled in post-production in Dakar, straight after the edit.
Tell us what you need: we reply within twenty-four hours with a costed quote and the creator available on site.
/ 10 — Elsewhere