The Most Famous
PHOTOGRAPHERS from Mali
This page contains a list of the greatest Malian Photographers. The pantheon dataset contains 148 Photographers, 1 of which were born in Mali. This makes Mali the birth place of the 23rd most number of Photographers behind Peru, and Vietnam.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Malian Photographers of all time. This list of famous Malian Photographers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Malick Sidibé (1935 - 2016)
With an HPI of 46.31, Malick Sidibé is the most famous Malian Photographer. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
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. In 1994 he had his first exhibition outside of Mali and received much critical praise for his carefully composed portraits. Sidibé's work has since become well known and renowned on a global scale. His work was the subject of a number of publications and exhibited throughout Europe and the United States. In 2007, he received a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale, becoming both the first photographer and the first African so recognized. Other awards he has received include a Hasselblad Award for photography in 2003, an International Center of Photography Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement (2008), and a World Press Photo award (2010). Sidibé's work is held in the collections of The Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Malian photographers born between 1935 and 1935. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Malian photographers include Malick Sidibé.
