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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.

Midnight in Bamako

In search of the late Malick Sidibé and the rhythmic roots of his legendary photographs.

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.

Mali's Era of Independence, in Photos

An essay on Malian photographer Adama Kouyaté, via Creative Time Reports.

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Aperture Magazine No. 261, “The Craft Issue” Cover
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Aperture No. 261

Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.

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