It is as hot as ever in Bamako, and the ever more numerous plump lambs, whose sales price continues to rise with the fast approaching Aïd festival called Battika, leave a thick odor of raw-wool in the city’s heavy dust. For Christian Caujolle, the Rencontres was above all ...

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The revelation of the 9th Rencontres de Bamako can be found in the Ritual Arts Hall of the National Museum of Mali: Soungalo Malé.
Portraits and studio portraits clearly linked to the history of African photography. Perhaps, yet so different, so revealing of future discoveries waiting t...

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In the last twenty years, African photography from the 1950s–1970s has received huge attention worldwide and a whole host of exhibitions and publications have been devoted to it. Interest in the work however has rarely been accompanied by any desire to safeguard and update archives....

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When Samuel Sidibé contacted me to design an exhibition based on an African collection for the 9th Encounters of Bamako, I didn’t hesitate for an instant, the idea seemed so obvious: inviting an African collector to share his or her work with the seasoned regulars of the co...

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From 31 January to 12 February 2011, the Génération Elili collective from Brazzaville and the Afrique In Visu platform ran an intercultural Research and Photography workshop on how to structure a photography network in Central Africa. The workshop took place in Brazzaville, in the Re...

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Following the success of the Atelier Photo Panafricain d’Accra in 2009, this second springboard workshop before the Biennial elected to focus on the work of up-and-coming photographers in Ghana.To run the workshop, designed to nurture candidates for the 2011 Encounters, the natura...

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A sustainable world will enhance the chances of food security. But the issue of food insecurity becomes more pertinent every day. It can be seen as a combination of two problems, a problem of acquirement and utilisation.

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For the event, a working group of fourteen photographers – nine men and five women, all Malian – was created to draw up a body of work depicting their own perspectives on the current state of affairs in the world.The focal point for this adventure was the “sustainable world” theme of th...

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To celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2011, the Cinémathèque Afrique de l’Institut Français is presenting the Grandes Figures des Cinémas d’Afrique et des Caraïbes exhibition, to be inaugurated at the 9th Encounters of Bamako. Pride of place has been given to images related to...

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From 10 to 13 November 2011, the week after the Encounters of Bamako opens, the Paris Photo Fair will be celebrating its 15th anniversary at the Grand Palais. African photography from Bamako to Cape Town is in the spotlight this year. The Encounters of Bamako has been invited to joi...

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