Timbuktu, Dunes along the Niger River
Timbuktu, Djingaray Ber Mosque ( built 1327,)
Timbuktu, Sankore Mosque
Timbuktu, Sidi Yaya Mosque.(built 1440). These doors were damaged during the occupation.
Timbuktu, Music Manuscript
Timbuktu, Women make bread in clay ovens every night.
Gao, The Tomb of Askia Mohammad, Songhai Emperor (built 1495)
Gao, Mosque Silhouette
Gao, Askia’s Tomb, Women’s section interior
Konna, Mosque
Konna, Rooftops
Douentza, Mosque
Douentza, Mosque
Nocara, 1995. A village between Doentza & Gao that I first visited in 1973
Doentza to Gao, The road is lined with huge beautiful wind carved rock mountains
Timbuktu, Gao, Konna and Doentza are towns in the part of northern Mali that was occupied by a fluid assortment of armed groups for ten months in 2012 and were liberated in January 2013. These photographs pay homage to the brave towns that were occupied and underscore their beauty and their history. The fighting was provoked when the armed groups began to move south in Mali towards previously unoccupied parts of Mali. The first battle to liberate the north of Mali was fought in Konna.
