The idea of a photographer using a large-format view camera and mobile studio to randomly photograph strangers on the streets might seem anachronistic in this age of mobile phone imagery and TikTok. But for the Malian photographer Fatoumata Diabaté, her mobile photography studio project, Le Studio Photo de la Rue (The street photo studio) continues a tradition popularised in Africa by the street studio photographers of the 1950s and 60s, notably Seydou Keïta, Malick Sidibé, Samuel Fosso, Oumar Ly, Mama Casset and Youssouf Sogodogo.
The project was conceived in 2013 soon