Monday, August 25, 2014

Benin 1969, Before Clothes Became Legally Required


 Working over her family’s oven, an Ewe girl of Grand’ Popo, Benin, crushes hot peppers over a flat stone to season her family's lunch.
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Sunday, August 24, 2014

Benin: Riding To Prayer At End Of Ramadan

In the following 1969 photos taken in Kandi, Benin, Bariba horsemen are following drumming griots, or minstrels, to prayer. The occasion was the End of Ramadan, the month-long Moslem fast. A blinding rising sun was casting long shadows and coloring the light.






Waiting in the shade for crowds to gather and prayer to start.


The boy was taking rsponsibility for his father's horse.

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Benin: Elegant Young Girl


Girl of Natitingou, North Benin.

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Saturday, August 23, 2014

Benin: Sunrise on Kandi Brings A Street To Life


In this 1969 photograph, a woman is pulling water from a communal well as sunrise brings the rest of the street to life under its warm light.
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Friday, August 22, 2014

Algeria: In Salah Oasis’s Giant Sand Dune


Unrelated Berber horseman and black woman moving along the foot of a giant sand dune in the Algerian oasis of In Salah.
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Thursday, August 21, 2014

Algeria: Threatening Oasis Sand Dunes


This 1973 photo shows how high moving sand dunes had forced the inhabitants of parts of Algeria’s beautiful In Salah oasis to abandon their houses. In an effort to stabilize the dunes visible in the background, hedges had been planted into their sharp crests.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Algeria’s Aurès Mountains: Shawiya Berber


Shawiya Berber farmer photographed in Algeria’s Aurès Mountains at Mchounèche.

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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Algeria: Shawiya Berbers


While walking the narrow winding streets of Algeria’s M’chounèche, in the Aurès Mountains, I accidentally interrupted this small group of conversing Shawiya Berbers who had gathered in the shade to sip tea. They stopped to have a look at me, and I stopped to shoot a picture of them. They were as curious about me as I was about them. So an invitation followed, which I gladly accepted, to share their tea, which was still brewing inside the house over the embers of a small fire. Three small glasses of it, as is the custom. Moslem hospitality is legendary.
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Monday, August 18, 2014

Benue River, Cameroon’s Great Cleaner


People bathing and washing clothes in Cameroon’s Benue River near Garua. In Africa, anywhere water is abundant, bathing and washing clothes is a national pastime. Heat, mud, dust, and socialization help make them entertaining.
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Sunday, August 17, 2014

Cameroon: Mandara Mountains Scene


Kirdi women returning home from a market in Cameroon’s Mandara Mountains. Kapsiki volcanic plugs rise in the background.
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