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…
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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…
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.…
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.…
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,…
Christian Caujolle: You are the curator of the Biennale de Bamako for the second time. What has changed ? Laura Serani: Many things have changed on many levels since 2009.…
Bamako is hot. Very hot. 70° mornings seem almost cool compared to the scorching 95° days. All the more so because the sandstorms, light though they may be, pollute the…
This video is a series of photographs shot in continuous mode and edited later on, before adding conceptual sound. We are here but not here. Where things are not in…
Christian Caujolle : How does the Managing Director operate at the Rencontres of Bamako? Samuel Sidibé : The General Manager is in many ways the General Director of the Biennale. He…