Streets of Bamako
Street photography in Africa is much different from southeast Asia and India. A little more hostile, and a lot more aggressive. Several times I’ve had to get myself out of heated exchanges with folks who did not at all appreciate my snapshots, no matter how good the image. Kind of reminds me of how Pascal and I got mobbed by angry photographees on our first day in the Congo a few years ago and hauled off to the local police station.
That said, most people are genuinely friendly. But see if you can guess which of the pictures below almost got me into a physical altercation…
March 2nd, 2009 in
Mali
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What’s the reason that they don’t like their photos taken?
Same variety of reasons people in any other country don’t, I think–the difference is their willingness to get directly and aggressively confrontational over it.