Malick Sidibe

His work seems to be set as African culture and in a old modern day style which is fresh as she get both genders of people that looks obvious that they are living in Africa with their skin tones, cultural outfits and having the women wear traditional clothing suitable for the country.  Malick sets a rule for herself when doing studio work as she carefully chooses the positioning that matches to their personality and does not want her subjects look mummified so she gives them a certain position that would make them come out more alive.

As a young boy he had a habit of collecting things like old hunting bullets from planes, he basically loved old items such as old rags and even wear them,crumpled up things and I think he used his young boy inspirations of collecting things in patterns, using it for the ground in the studio and designing own clothing into old rags like he did but blending with studio in a way like the ground.

The way I see these portraits is that they look like some of the subjects are hiding their identities by wearing glasses and not making eye contact to the lens of the camera and just posing normally for a profile picture or a sort of pose you do when with friends not looking forceful.