The Yale Review | Emmanuel Iduma: "Tender Light"

The mysterious romance between photography and fiction.

The Yale Review | Emmanuel Iduma: "Tender Light" Essays Tender Light The bond between photography and narrative Emmanuel Iduma Malick Sidibé Lancina Sanogo, l'ami de Mody vu de dos, 2002, gelatin silver print, 50 x 60 cm. Credit: © Malick Sidibe. Courtesy MAGNIN-A Gallery, Paris O ne evening, a mild-mannered pastor returns home from a photography exhibition. He is unsure of what to say to his wife. He goes into their bedroom and finds her asleep. So he decides to take a walk, as far as he can manage in the course of a half hour, at which point he imagines his wife might wake, anxious about his

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