Sahel Boy

Category: Travel Portraits

 

Photo and caption by Ruth McDowall

A boy in the Sahel area of Nigeria's face reflects the harsh elements he lives in. The photo was taken during the harmattan season, when winds blow off the Sahara desert covering everything in fine dust and creating an extremly harsh and dry enviroment

Location: Dogon Dawa, Kano State Nigeria

 

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