The legacy of Mali’s influential photography biennial.
Fatoumata Diabate’s traveling studio revives the golden age of Malian studio portraiture.
Celebrated for his studio portraiture in the 1950s, Bamako’s most prominent photographer mastered the elements of style.
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.