Rashid Mahdi

Rashid Mahdi
Born1923
Atbara Sudan
Died2008
NationalitySudanese
Known fordocumentary and portrait photography

Rashid Mahdi (Arabic: رشيد مهدي, 1923 – 2008) was a Sudanese photographer, active in Atbara from the 1950s to the 1970s. French photographer Claude Iverné [fr], founder of a large archive of photographs dedicated to this "Golden Age" of photography in Sudan, called Mahdi "certainly the most sophisticated and one of the major African photographers of the 20th century."[1]

Most prominently, Mahdi's photographs were presented at the African Photography Encounters in Bamako, Mali, in 2005,[2] in a personal exhibition during the Paris Photo fair in 2011,[3] as well as at the 2017 retrospective exhibition "The Khartoum School: the making of the modern art movement in Sudan (1945 – present)", presented by the Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates.[4] His work is also represented in the collection of the Musée du quai Branly in Paris.

  1. ^ Iverné, Claude (2015). "Rashid Mahdi". Elnour. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Studio al Rashid - artist, news & exhibitions - photography-now.com". photography-now.com. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
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  4. ^ "The Khartoum School: the making of the modern art movement in Sudan (1945–present)". Sharjah Art Foundation. Retrieved 24 May 2020.