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Seydou Keïta was born circa 1921 in Bamako (then the capital of French Sudan). He did not attend school and at the age of seven became an apprentice carpenter to…

Seydou Keïta is without doubt one of the greatest African photographers of the last century whose work, when it is analysed, is marked from the start by signifiers of the…

My interest for contemporary art in Africa began in 1986, when I worked preparing “Magiciens de la Terre”, the first real international exhibition presented in 1989 at the Centre Pompidou…

Most of the photographs taken by Keïta in his Bamako studio between 1948 – when the studio opened – and 1962 – when it closed down for good – remained virtually unknown other than by the photographer’s immediate…

With upbringings rooted in traditional values, the photographers of postwar Italy considered the landscape to be an integral part of their lives and photographic practice. For these photographers, the Italian…