Emmanuel Bakary Daou

Emmanuel Bakary Daou was born in 1960 in San, Mali. He studied fine arts at the Institut National des Arts in Bamako, then worked as a cartoonist and press photographer. Today he is a freelance photographer with his own studio, Photo Nature, in Bamako. He founded the association Images de Mali (DJAW-Mali) in 1994 and the Digital Club in Bamako in 2009, and since 2011 he has been co-founder and artistic director of Espace Photo Partage. He also started Bamako Samedi Photo, an exhibition held on the last Saturday of every month. He has taken part in the Bamako Encounters several times and has shown work in the United States, France, Germany, South Africa and at Galerie Médina in Bamako (2013). His prizes include the Seydou Keïta Prize, third place (1998) and the Sorké d’Or for best photo report (2009). His photographs are held in the archives of the National Museum of Mali.