Country
Mali
Country
Mali
Fatoumata Diabaté (b. 1980, Bamako) is a portraitist whose practice bridges humanist and social photography. She lives and works between Bamako, Mali, and Montpellier, France.
Diabaté is best known for Studio Photo de la Rue, a traveling street studio that revives Mali’s mid-century studio tradition. She was trained at Promo-Femmes and the Centre de Formation en Photographie de Bamako (CFP), where she also served as an analog lab technician.
Her work has been featured in exhibitions and festivals including Bamako Encounters, the Dakar Biennale, Red Hook Labs, and La Gacilly. She has received numerous honors, including the Afrique en Créations prize (2005), the Fondation Blachère prize (2011), and being named the Quai Branly photographic residency laureate (2021). She was also a finalist for the James Barnor Prize in 2022.
Fatoumata Diabaté (b. 1980, Bamako) is a portraitist whose practice bridges humanist and social photography. She lives and works between Bamako, Mali, and Montpellier, France.
Diabaté is best known for Studio Photo de la Rue, a traveling street studio that revives Mali’s mid-century studio tradition. She was trained at Promo-Femmes and the Centre de Formation en Photographie de Bamako (CFP), where she also served as an analog lab technician.
Her work has been featured in exhibitions and festivals including Bamako Encounters, the Dakar Biennale, Red Hook Labs, and La Gacilly. She has received numerous honors, including the Afrique en Créations prize (2005), the Fondation Blachère prize (2011), and being named the Quai Branly photographic residency laureate (2021). She was also a finalist for the James Barnor Prize in 2022.
