Bamako

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Seydou Keïta’s Revelatory Portraits of Malian Life

In midcentury Bamako, sitting for a portrait in Keïta’s studio was a defining assertion of identity.

The Midcentury Style

Fatoumata Diabate’s traveling studio revives the golden age of Malian studio portraiture.

Through the Lens

In Bamako, a group of young photographers engage a changing city.

The Lives of Samuel Fosso

The acclaimed photographer pushes self-portraiture into new realms of gender-bending theatricality.

Revisiting Seydou Keïta

Celebrated for his studio portraiture in the 1950s, Bamako’s most prominent photographer mastered the elements of style.

Telling Time in Bamako

Joseph Gergel reports on the tenth edition of Rencontres de Bamako, West Africa’s venerable photography festival.

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