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Congratulations to Malick Sidibé on the World Press photography prize! I really love his work so I’m very happy to see that he’s among the winners. And it’s great to see photos that aren’t of poverty porn.
(Though the World Pressers awarded a fair share of that too.)
See a great review of his work here, and buy his book here. I ordered mine on Amazon.com a while back and the next time I head to the USA, I’ll pick it up from my parent’s house in California, where it waits for me along with all those notices about my high school reunion.
And every day, I want to go to Mali more and more… and my high school reunion less and less.
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This is fab news, my favourite of his photos is the one of the couple dancing, a girl barefoot. I think it is called Christmas Eve. I am off to Bamako for a conference in a forthnight and hope to be able to visit his studio. I think his son is running it now.
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Ah, Fatou, I’m so jealous! Does your conference need a photographer?? If you make it to the studio, I’d love to feature a guest post by you about the visit if you’re willing.
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Fatou Reply:
February 12th, 2010 at 2:01 PM
@Glenna,
I would love to do a guest post, if I ever make it to the studio, I still need to find out its location etc, some googling should be able to sort that out. If you have any inside information, or if any of your readers know more, I’d be most grafetul.
My conference does not need a photographe, I am afaid. It will be just a bunch of social scientists who work in Bobo Dioulasso, BF discussing their work. I think we would make for very dull photo subjects, though the work we do is fascinating (if I can say so myself)
If you ever decide to take photos in Bobo Dioulasso, let me know, I keep a house there and also have ample connections – and plenty of great people and things to photograph.
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The first country in Africa I ever wanted to visit was Mali, and now, nearly four years living on this continent later, I still haven’t gone! High priority – will hopefully happen one of these days… Unfortunately I don’t know anyone who could help with contacts in terms of a studio visit – but if you do make it and want to write something or send some photos, let me know!!
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