sending...Malick Sidibé was born in 1935 in Mali and studied design and jewelry at the Institut National des Arts, Mali. Malik Sidebe had a penchant for capturing youth culture in Mali in the 1960s. This was at a time when Mali had begun to embrace Rock N Roll and the finest Paris fashion.
The Venice Biennale Golden Hasselbard Award, for lifetime achievement, was awarded to Malick in 2007, the first time the award had been given to a photographer.
Robert Storr, the 2007 curator of the Venice Biennale, who recommended Sidibé for the lifetime award said at the time: “No African artist has done more to enhance photography’s stature in the region, contribute to its history, enrich its image archive or increase our awareness of the textures and transformation of African culture in the second half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first.”
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