Inès Kabamba
CONGO BASIN RJF GRANTEE
Rainforest
Journalism Fund
Congo Basin
Born in 1991, Inès Kabamba has been a multidisciplinary artist since childhood. She is a singer, dancer, body painter, graphic designer, poet, and cinematographer.
Kabamba was a marketing student in South Africa and a choreographer in the Democratic Republic of the Congo when she decided to leave it all to study art. She studied visual communication at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Kinshasa, the Congolese capital, all while being an actress and a producer in a miniseries with classmates. She has appeared in advertising and film productions and launched her own photography studio, named Kameleone. Kabamba also writes and produces films.