Bamako Boy
By Mariette Papic
When he arrived I was down to my last frame but this boy’s style was so good I turned to my left and snapped this after he had barely gotten off of his motor bike. He was joining many other young men that gather in groups to line the streets of the capital in the late afternoons.
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Mariette Papic is a Brooklyn-based photographer, born and raised in New Jersey by Balkan immigrants. Her lens travels the line between perceived and imagined states of reality across many types of photography and geographies. Her subjects reflect the inner tension between the public and private self to explore the universally strange and beautiful. Her website can be found at www.mariettepapic.com.
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