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Mali, 1986

I’ve always been intrigued and fascinated with the human face. I love portraiture. I love photographing people. I love human behavior. I love how we interact with each other and relate to each other. This Tuareg woman, who had this real sense of dignity and beauty, I photographed her on the outskirts of Gal, near Timbuktu and Mali. This is a very desert, very desolate hot part of the world. The Tuareg are this majestic proud people, but they wear this blue gown which has dyed in this very deep shade of indigo. Sometimes that dye will rub off on the skin of the person wearing it, giving them an appearance of having blue skin and they are called the Blue Men of the desert.

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