 She was awarded a Villa Médicis hors les murs residency for this work.In 1991, she discovered the photographers Seydou Keïta (photographer) and Malick Sidibé (winner of the 2003 Hasselblad Award) and contributed to increasing recognition of their work.She founded the first "Biennale de la photographie africaine" (Biennale of African photography) in 1994 in Bamako.