The following images were made with large format Polaroid 55 positive/negative film using a 4x5" Linhof monorail studio camera in the field.
Using the peel-apart film allowed me to give a paper image to the people I had photographed while keeping a negative for future printing.
The photographs were taken during a year-long road trip through the Sahara and West Africa from 1977 through 1978.
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Healer, Baguida (near Lomé), Togo, 1978
Healer and family, Lomé, Togo, 1978
Targui, Aïr Mountains, Niger, 1978
Young Targui, Aïr Mountains, Niger, 1978
Tidiani Sissako, master leatherworker with apprentices, Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, 1977
