Lessons We Can Learn From Malick Sidibé

Having apprenticed under leading society photographer Gérard Guillat and learning his trade at colonial balls and banquets, in 1962 Malick Sidibé opened Studio Malick: a photographic studio located in Bamako, Mali. The decades that followed saw both the studio and Sidibé's documentary photography rise to a global renown, his work capturing an exuberant period of liberation in a country that had lived under colonial rule for centuries.