Fatoumata Diabaté Explained

Fatoumata Diabaté
Birth Date:19 September 1980
Birth Place:Bamako, Mali
Education:Centre de Formation Audiovisuel Promo-Femmes
Occupation:Photographer
Awards:
  • Blanchère Foundation Prize
  • Afrique en Créations Prize
  • Prix Afrique

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

Education

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. Later, she was spotted for her motivation and talent, then retained and trained for two more years.[3] [4] [5] [6] 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. She also served an internship at the Central DUPON's professional printing laboratory in Paris.[7] 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. She credits Malian photographer Seydou Keïta, who was a neighbor of hers when she was growing up, as a creative inspiration. Diabaté has also paid homage to Malick Sidibé, Samuel Fosso, and Oumar Ly, all masters of African studio photography.[8]

Career

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. Her camera of choice is an old-fashioned view camera,[9] 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. She works in analog photographic processes, both black and white and color.

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

Selected exhibitions

Selected awards

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External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Fatoumata Diabaté. nataal.com. en-US. 30 December 2019.
  2. Web site: Fatoumata Diabaté (Photographer). TEXT. en. 30 December 2019.
  3. Web site: Fatoumata Diabaté Mali. Photo. World Press. Afrique in visu. fr. 30 December 2019.
  4. Web site: Fatoumata Diabaté. Studio Journal knock. ja. 30 December 2019.
  5. Web site: FATOUMATA DIABATE. PhotoFoto Festivals. 30 December 2019.
  6. Web site: Fatoumata Diabate – Addis Foto Fest. en-US. 30 December 2019. 30 December 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191230155101/http://www.addisfotofest.com/2018/fatoumatadiabate/. dead.
  7. Web site: Dakin. Dagara. 4 October 2017. The Midcentury Style: Fatoumata Diabate's traveling studio revives the golden age of Malian studio portraiture.. 5 March 2021. Aperture.
  8. Web site: 4 February 2018. Gallery Talks: The Malian artist brings her black & white works to Nataal: New African Photography III at Red Hook Labs. 5 March 2021. Nataal.
  9. News: 6 November 2015. The Godfather gets African look for Mali exhibition. Agence-France Presse. 5 March 2021.
  10. Web site: 9th African Photography Biennial. 1 March 2012. www.frieze.com. en. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402095516/http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/9th-african-photography-biennial/. 2 April 2015. 30 December 2019.
  11. Web site: Artiste Fatoumata Diabaté. apps.carleton.edu.
  12. Web site: Emission Regardez voir / Bamako in Paris du 26/10/2013. www.franceinter.fr.
  13. Web site: Bamako Photo in Paris, un hommage aux photographes maliens. 5 October 2013. www.lemondedelaphoto.com. 30 December 2019.
  14. Web site: Fatoumata Diabaté. marabouparken.se. en.
  15. Web site: Bamako - Dakar. www.stadthaus.ulm.de. en. 3 February 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150203030501/http://www.stadthaus.ulm.de/stadthaus/weitere_infos.131848.htm. dead.
  16. Web site: Exposition Femme Photographe. www.onomohotel.com.
  17. News: 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. 5 March 2021.