Quai de la Photograph, the cultural venue (and restaurant, and bar, with Sein boat excursions additionally out there) has a brand new exhibition on supply – Un autre Mali dans un autre monde (which means, kind of A Totally different Mali in a Totally different World) – displaying the legacy, evolution, richness and daring of Malian pictures, with over 60 photographs from 14 artists hardly ever proven in France.
By the best way, the exhibition is free, and it’s not removed from our accommodations!
Françoise Huguier based the Bamako Encounters in 1994 and Seydou Camara is a tutor at and founding father of the Yamarou coaching centre in Bamako. Collectively, they’re behind this new exhibition of Malian pictures, each previous and future, displaying its range and energy.
Their writings are to be discovered all through the exhibition, in addition to audio recordings of them giving additional details about their experiences and factors of view.
As an example, you’ll study that it was fully by likelihood that Françoise Huguier, who was despatched to Mali in 1982 to take footage of Salif Keita and Mory Kanté for the journal Rock & People, met the good photographer Malick Sidibé; Huguie’s digicam wanted a restore, and Sidibé was working on the retailer/workshop in query.
There are, after all, many different gifted photographers to find within the exhibition, with many names you might not be accustomed to. Though in French, free guided visits are on supply each day at 12.30pm, 2.30pm, 4.30pm and 6.30pm that will help you study extra.
Different associated occasions are additionally being organised.
The general public opening occasion is on sixth March, beginning at 6pm, with two mini-concerts (at 6.30pm and eight.30pm) from guitarist and composer Mama Sissoko and his musicians, adopted by and Afro Home DJ set.
And over the course of the 3-month exhibition there are additionally:
— free workshops on the weekend for teenagers aged 5-10, and
— a ‘Portfolio Afterwork’ session with Françoise Huguier on twenty sixth March, an opportunity so that you can current your work and get her skilled suggestions.
You might also prefer to know the Huguier’s groundbreaking 1990 e book Sur les traces de l’Afrique fantôme (200 photographs, 240 pages, 45€) remains to be out there from her writer right here.
The exhibition Un autre Mali dans un autre monde (A Totally different Mali in a Totally different World) is at Quai de la Photograph (right here) from seventh March – 1st June 2025
Open Wednesday-Sunday, midday-midnight
Admission: free!
Free guided visits in French, Wednesday-Sunday at 12.30pm, 2.30pm, 4.30pm and 6.30pm
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