I’m back in the US now, so updates about my trip to Niger have pretty much ground to a halt for the time being. School’s resumed, so time is a luxury I simply don’t have enough of these days for updating the blog. Hopefully that changes….
However, I wanted to share a great blog post I just read concerning photography in West Africa, since it relates to a lot of the issues I was dealing with while shooting photos in Niger. Bruce Whitehouse, an anthropology professor at Lehigh University, keeps a terrific blog called Bridges from Bamako, which discusses his experiences living in Bamako, Mali. He recently posted about the challenges of street photography in his entry “To shoot or not to shoot: The perils of street photography in Bamako.” (Thanks to Andy Morgan for sharing information about this post!)
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At any rate, it’s helpful to get another perspective from someone more experienced in the region than I. Although the issues may not be the same in Niger—for instance, I’m not aware of an analogous term for sabati that Whitehouse discusses in his post, although I was certainly introduced to notions related to shame, reserve, honor, and dignity (among Tuareg, known as takarakit)— they’re undoubtedly related.