Joël Claude Mpah Dooh, born in Nkongsamba (Cameroon) in 1954, is a visual artist who lives and works in Douala. Joël is a graduate of the Conservatoire Municipal des Beaux-Arts of Amiens (France). His first works on canvas offer filiform characters in postures expressing pain and seeking deliverance. His later works became very urban writings, similar to graffiti. His experiments led him to work in three dimensions, volume representing the characters of his first paintings, interpreting the poverty of amorphous people left to themselves. He works with other materials such as aluminum foil, which he paints and scratches, or Plexiglas sheets, also scratched up, which with light creates games of shadows.