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1935–2016
Malick Sidibé (1935 – 14 April 2016) was a Malian photographer from a Fulani (Fula) village in Soloba, who was noted for his black-and-white studies of popular culture in the 1960s in Bamako, Mali. Sidibé had a long and fruitful career as a photographer in Bamako, and was a well-known figure in his community.
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Man tried to imitate God by drawing; then we invented the photo.
Photographs are reality: they never lie, and that's important to me."
"I was always on the lookout for a photo opportunity, a lighthearted moment, an original attitude, or some guy who was really funny."
"I think that drawing is somewhat innate in a being, in man."
I wanted to be the photographer of happiness.
There is no such thing as a 'European' or an 'African photography.' It's all the same thing."
Young people enjoyed having their photo taken in their best attire... Everyone likes to be beautiful in photographs."
It's a world, someone's face. When I capture it, I see the future of the world."
I don't like posed pictures. Even in my studio photos, I was interested in movement. That's what attracted me to young people and their parties as well."
You have to remember a good photographer is also a social animal... because the customers don't really see the camera, they see you, the artist—you become the product they're buying.
Too often is Africa's image linked to pain, poverty, misery. Denying this reality would be foolish, but Africa is not only that, and this is what I have always wanted to depict in my images."