MALICK SIDIBÉ (b. 1935, Soloba, Mali) lives and works in Bamako, Mali.
Malick Sidibé is a photographer noted for his black-and-white studies of popular culture in Bamako, Mali. He graduated from the Bamako School of Artisans in Jewelry and Design, apprenticed in a studio with Gerard Guillat, and soon after opened his own Studio Malick, which he continues to operate today. Sidibé has become the father of the streets of Mali, and his photographs reflect his own personality: convivial, intimate yet not voyeuristic, and often wryly humorous.
Sidibé first became internationally known in 1994, and had his first large-scale exhibition at the Fondation Cartier, Paris, in 1995. He has received the Hasselblad Award for Photography (2003), and the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement Award, at the Venice Biennale (2007), the first time this prize has been given to a photographer.
Sidibé is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York.