Christian Caujolle: This is your second time serving as curator of the Bamako Biennial. What has changed since your first term?
Krifa Michket : We are trying to develop something that was evident two years ago and that has only evolved since...

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During the 2010 FIFA World Cup, I documented the ordinary man and the country’s hopes. FIFA was supposed to help with infrastructure, people had hoped to benefit from the event, but not everyone benefited. The small towns and cities suffered the same fate; the trickle effect from the Wor...

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On 21 October 1993 violence broke out between Hutus and Tutsis in Burundi. On 24 October, armed gangs reached the Ruyigi hills to the east of Bujumbura. Marguerite “Maggy” Barankitse saved twenty-five children from slaughter and founded Maison Shalom (House of Peace). There children who...

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Mining methods ought to be more environmentally sensitive and help sustain and retain the land in its original format without driving away or venturing into residential areas. So often one sees people relocated because of a mining venture. It is of paramount importance that mining m...

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I retraced the route of artist-explorer Samuel Daniell, who in 1800 set out on a journey from Cape Town to Leetakoe (today Ditakong) to document the landscape. Conversations with people brought up further stories about how animals can be symbolic of a culture. Extended periods spent in rur...

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This work continues the lineage of making environmental videos, started in the 1980s by the films Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi by Godfrey Reggio. They were inspired by the Hopi words given to the titles, meaning “Life out of Balance” and “Life in Transformation”. The Native American relati...

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People are always – instinctively – surrounded by vegetation, but people can forget themselves, as well as forgetting the essentials. Isolated trees try, as best they can, to survive their historic protectors, who have embarked on a crazy race for urban development. This series is a set ...

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Kenya’s Turkana tribe is withering in numbers as a drought devastates the Horn of Africa. In a region where little to no aid has reached the affected areas, I chose to document in the clearest light possible the people and faces at risk of disappearing as a result of this seasonal disaster. Su...

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The images were shot both from a conceptual and from a documentary approach. As can be observed, the idea was to glamorise the images through close-up shots, ironically selling the products on face value. But on closer examination they expose metaphorically the effects of the mania of co...

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Twelve ships have been abandoned on the Lagos coasts since February 2010. Over one hundred villages in Lagos State face being washed away by ocean surge from the Atlantic Ocean as a result of these abandoned shipwrecks. About 80% of the coastal zone is threatened by sea-level rise and inu...

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The refuse dump at Akouédo in Abidjan has existed since 1945. The first and only public dump for all the rubbish of Abidjan and its suburbs, this site has become a cemetery of detritus. Every day men, women and children live in close contact with this dump of dangerously toxic wast...

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Coastal and riverine erosion are not new phenomena on the Ghana coast. However, the pace of change has accelerated drastically in recent years, sweeping away homes and livelihoods and, according to some experts, foreshadowing the fate of many of West Africa’s coastal capitals as sea level...

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This is a photographic essay on the aftermath of the thirty-year war in Angola. During the conflict over 1.5 million people lost their lives; 4 million were displaced from their homes and 0.5 million others sought refuge in the neighbouring countries. These photographs are an attempt to evo...

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Les rêves qui naissent evokes the perception of a dream state through the simple juxtaposition of pictures underscored by a musical soundtrack. The work conveys impressions poetically shaped from solitude, melancholy and impotence with respect to passing time.

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A virtual image, produced by merging two different cultures, each one has its own reference. In a rather shocking approach, the film presents an anti-stereotyping statement as it dramatically portraits opposing styles reflecting contradicting beliefs.

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In the late afternoon of 12 January 2010, the city of Port-au-Prince and its outskirts were struck by an earthquake that measured 7.3 on the Richter scale. On the heels of this unprecedented catastrophe, Roberto Stephenson roamed the city and its ruins with his camera. During his wand...

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These images are of gravestones in Ethiopia. When a person dies, his or her relatives place a photograph onto the tombstone and also inscribe a short history of the deceased. Thinking about the families’ photographs, and the idea of memorials and loss, I am struck by the personal sense o...

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Still Existence is a series that looks at the presence of informal traders on the streets of Johannesburg, in particular around one of the biggest taxi rank-cum-markets in the country. Many of these traders have migrated from various parts of the continent and other parts of...

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Under the direction of Photoceros, Jean-Mathieu Martini and Serge Plantureux, the auction house Binoche et Giquello presents “Photographs in Books,” featuring albums, portfolios, magazines and original maquettes. The auction will take place Friday, November 4, 2011, at 11h15 at the renowne...

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