Malick Sidibe

posted by Olivia Savage November 10, 2014

Malick Sidibe is a Malian photographer who’s black and white film work is completely enchanting. Known for his electrically charged photos of popular culture and cultural shift in 1960’s Bamako, his home city in Mali, he captures people being free and relaxed in public when doing so was relatively new and exciting. His candid dancing snaps at parties are both incredibly intimate and iconic simultaneously, and his posed shots of fashion, youth and motorbikes in front of geometric lines and prints seem beautifully current and way ahead of their time.