/ Dakar, Senegal
Dakar is our home port. AFROTO is registered here, and this is where the post-production of every assignment comes back to, whatever country the footage was shot in: editing, grading, mixing and subtitling are all done by the same team, in Dakar. That is what gives a series shot across four countries a coherence no patchwork of local suppliers can produce — the same colour, the same rhythm, the same sound treatment from one film to the next.
Eight AfroCréateurs live here, available within twenty-four hours, with camera bodies, lighting, sound, stabiliser, drone, studio and neutral backdrop on hand. Nothing to ship in, no customs delay to absorb into the schedule.
Dakar is also our departure point for the rest of West Africa: it is from here that teams leave when an assignment covers several capitals, and here that the rushes from all those teams come together.
Request a quote/ 01 — Assignments
/ 02 — Images and films
/ 03 — Creators on location
No individual profiles are published. We select the most relevant creator for the assignment; the client does not approve them before the shoot.
/ 04 — Services
Project reportage, corporate portraits, assembly and seminar coverage. For ADA, we photographed the activities of the SSNUP programme across several agricultural value chains, from northern Senegal through to the processing units — two hundred photographs delivered.
Documentary films, donor visibility videos, entrepreneur portraits, event capture. Our Dakar teams filmed the entrepreneurs of Digital Africa's Fuzé programme, and the activities of Expertise France's AEDIB programme — short formats designed for online distribution as much as for presentation in a room.
/ 05 — Testimonials
Leur réactivité, leur souplesse et la qualité de leur prestation en font un partenaire de qualité […]. De plus, leur excellente connaissance du continent permet de disposer d'images vraiment issues du terrain, tournées avec justesse et vérité.
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.
/ 06 — Budget
€400 – €600
Indicative estimate: shooting only, excluding travel and post-production.
/ 07 — Questions
Twenty-four hours. Our eight AfroCréateurs live in the metropolitan area and have neither a flight to catch nor equipment to ship.
Yes. Studio and neutral backdrop are part of the equipment available locally, alongside lighting, sound, stabiliser and drone. A corporate portrait or a product photography series can therefore be shot in controlled conditions, with no external rental to budget for.
Our creators travel out from Dakar to the rest of the country: Thiès is under seventy kilometres away, Saint-Louis about two hundred and sixty, and Casamance takes a day by road or a domestic flight. You keep the same team as in the city, and the journey is costed into the quote rather than discovered on the road.
/ 08 — Cities covered
Tell us what you need: we reply within twenty-four hours with a costed quote and the creator available on site.