Joseph Chila

Joseph Chila is a Cameroonian photographer from Mbouda in the West Region of Cameroon.

Joseph Chila was born in 1948 near Mbouda in the West Region of Cameroun, in the Bamiléké area.

Joseph Chila worked as a studio photographer in Mayo-Darlé, a small town that then had a tin mine operating that brought wealth to the residents.

His work has been exhibited in Yaoundé, Douala and Bamenda and in the National Portrait Gallery (London).

[2] Of one of Chila's portraits, Clarke makes parallels with Richard Avedon and says "The effect is to both suggest an extraordinary sense of presence which, in relation to Barthes' use of the [']mask', achieves, once again, a remarkable sense of the individual subject.