Keïta’s career as a photographer was launched in 1935 by an uncle who gave him his first camera, a Kodak Brownie Flash, which he had purchased during a trip to Senegal.In 1948 he opened his own studio in Bamako and he quickly built up a successful business. Keïta balanced a strict sense of formality with a remarkable level of intimacy with his subjects. "I always knew how to find the right position,...I was capable of making someone look really good.”
His work was gradually brought to light in the early 1990s; Keïta has since achieved international recognition.
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