In this picture taken on on November 5, 2011 award-winning Malian photographer Malick Sidibe gestures as he instructs subjects during a portrait session at his studio in Bamako, Mali. Pioneering Malian photographer Malick Sidibe, whose powerful black and white images of local life won him global fame and top awards, has died aged 80, his family said on April 15, 2016. Sidibe's vibrant images of life in the Malian capital Bamako in the 1960s, when the country gained independence from France, were a social commentary chronicling both pop culture and traditional society. / AFP / GIANLUIGI GUERCIA (Photo credit should read GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/Getty Images)
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