R6089/4 Photograph ‘Untitled’

Portrait of a woman in a sleeveless, knee-length print dress with a full skirt, posing with her hands at her waist and one leg on a stool, in front of a cloth backdrop.

Untitled by Hamidou Maiga (Museum Accession Number R6089/4) ©Hamidou Maiga. Image courtesy of Jack Bell Gallery, London.

Photograph of a woman in a fitted full-skirted wax print dress, posing in front of a cloth backdrop. Photographer Hamidou Maiga documented Malian society and youth culture in his portraits, setting up his own studio in 1973. Black and white gelatin silver print, collected as part of the Fashioning Africa project.

Creator: Hamidou Maiga

Title: Untitled

Place: Mali, West Africa, Africa

Date: 1962