The 14th Bamako Encounters – The African Biennal of Photography will be held from November 16, 2024 to January 15, 2025 in Bamako, Mali. This 14th edition celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Biennal, giving a special echo to contemporary photographic expression.

This edition’s theme will focus on KUMA, the Speech, the Silence and the Noise. The 14th Bamako Encounters invites artists to explore new forms, experiment with dialogues in between word and image, and give visual existence to moments of speech, eloquence, anger, hope, recollection, silence, cacophony and noise.