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Fatoumata Diabaté

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Fatoumata Diabaté
Born (1980-09-19) 19 September 1980 (age 44)
Bamako, Mali
EducationCentre de Formation Audiovisuel Promo-Femmes
OccupationPhotographer
Awards
  • Blanchère Foundation Prize
  • Afrique en Créations Prize
  • Prix Afrique
Websitefatoumatadiabate.com

Fatoumata Diabaté (born 19 September 1980) is a Malian photographer from Bamako.[1][2]

Education

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In 2002, after spending nine months at the Centre de Formation Audiovisuel Promo-Femmes training center in Bamako, Diabaté continued her studies at the Centre de Formation en Photographie de Bamako (CFP), which aims to professionalize Malian photographers. She was given a two-week internship there.[citation needed] Later, she was spotted for her motivation and talent, then retained and trained for two more years.[3][4][5][6][7] Diabaté then completed her training in Switzerland at the Vevey Professional Education Center and returned to the CFP in Bamako, where she was a technical assistant from 2007 to 2009.[citation needed] She also served an internship at the Central DUPON's professional printing laboratory in Paris.[8] Her studies gave her the opportunity to improve her skills in black-and-white silver gelatin photography and to participate in many workshops in Mali, as well as abroad.[5][4][6][7] She credits Malian photographer Seydou Keïta, who was a neighbor of hers when she was growing up, as a creative inspiration.[citation needed] Diabaté has also paid homage to Malick Sidibé, Samuel Fosso, and Oumar Ly, all masters of African studio photography.[9]

Career

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Diabaté has participated in several group and individual exhibitions and has earned a number of awards, notably the Prix Afrique, given by the Association française d'action artistique following the 2005 Rencontres africaines de la photographie biennial, Bamako, where she took the Afrique en Créations prize for her work Touaregs, en gestes et en mouvements.[5][6][7][1][10] Her camera of choice is an old-fashioned view camera,[11] which she has used inside a portable studio/installation in her project Studio Photo de la Rue, to create staged scenes for her subjects, also a nod to the work of the masters of African studio photography noted above.[citation needed] She works in analog photographic processes, both black and white and color.[8]

Diabaté has also photographed on commission for World Press Photo, Oxfam, Rolex,[2] and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.[8]

Selected exhibitions

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  • Rencontres africaines de la photographie (2005, 2009, and 2011 editions), Bamako, Mali[12].
  • Photographing the Social Body: Malian Portraiture from the Studio to the Street (30 March 2012 – 18 May 2012), Carleton College Perlman Teaching Museum, Northfield, Minnesota.[7]
  • Bamako Photo in Paris (4 October 2013 – 7 December 2013), Pavillon Carré de Baudoin, Paris.[13][10]
  • The Night Belongs to Us / A nous la nuit (10 October 2013 – 1 December 2013), Galerie d'art Marabouparken, Sundbyberg.[14]
  • Bamako – Dakar (19 September 2014 – 23 November 2014), Stadthaus Ulm, Ulm.[15]
  • Femme photographe (6 December 2014 – 6 May 2015), Hôtel Onomo Dakar Airport, Dakar.[16]
  • New African Photography III (4–6 May 2018), Red Hook Labs, Brooklyn[17]

Selected awards

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  • 2005: Prix Afrique prize from the French Association for Artistic Action (AFAA) for her project Touaregs, en gestes et en mouvements.[2]
  • 2005: Afrique en Créations prize for Touaregs, en gestes et en mouvements.[5]
  • 2011: Blachère Foundation prize for her work entitled The Animal in Man.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Fatoumata Diabaté". nataal.com. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d "Fatoumata Diabaté (Photographer)". TEXT. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  3. ^ Photo, World Press. "Fatoumata Diabaté | Mali". Afrique in visu (in French). Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  4. ^ a b "Fatoumata Diabaté". Studio Journal knock (in Japanese). Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  5. ^ a b c d "FATOUMATA DIABATE". PhotoFoto Festivals. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  6. ^ a b c "Fatoumata Diabate – Addis Foto Fest". Archived from the original on 30 December 2019. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  7. ^ a b c d "Artiste Fatoumata Diabaté". apps.carleton.edu.
  8. ^ a b c Dakin, Dagara (4 October 2017). "The Midcentury Style: Fatoumata Diabate's traveling studio revives the golden age of Malian studio portraiture". Aperture. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  9. ^ "Gallery Talks: The Malian artist brings her black & white works to Nataal: New African Photography III at Red Hook Labs". Nataal. 4 February 2018. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  10. ^ a b "Bamako Photo in Paris, un hommage aux photographes maliens". www.lemondedelaphoto.com. 5 October 2013. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  11. ^ "The Godfather gets African look for Mali exhibition". Agence-France Presse. 6 November 2015. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  12. ^ "9th African Photography Biennial". www.frieze.com. 1 March 2012. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  13. ^ "Emission Regardez voir / Bamako in Paris du 26/10/2013". www.franceinter.fr.
  14. ^ "Fatoumata Diabaté". marabouparken.se.
  15. ^ "Bamako - Dakar". www.stadthaus.ulm.de. Archived from the original on 3 February 2015.
  16. ^ "Exposition Femme Photographe". www.onomohotel.com.
  17. ^ Jansen, Charlotte (3 May 2018). "Womanhood in sharp focus - An exhibition at the 1-54 fair for contemporary African art in New York foregrounds the female perspective". Financial Times. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
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