Promo-femme: Promoting Women Photographers in Bamako, Mali

Abstract

This article discusses the conditions and circumstances related to the professional emergence of women photographers in Bamako, the capital of Mali. The founding of the school Promo-femme: Center of Audiovisual Education for Young Women by Aminata Dembélé Bagayoko has had an influential effect on the field's gender demographic, enabling women to not only engage in, but become successful at, this formerly all-male profession. I analyse the production of three women working in 2006 in different photographic genres: Penda Diakité, a studio portraitist; Alimata dite Diop Traoré, a photo-journalist; and Fatoumata Diabaté, an artist. The professional lives and works of these three women comprise an arena of active contestation over female identity in Mali.

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