Photographs from the northern Sahel
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In Rosso, on the Senegal River on the border between Mauritania and the Senegalese state, the camel, the "desert ship", and the pirogue, the river boat, meet. - Senegal - 1969
A fisherman with his pirogue on the Niger River in the Mopti area. - Mali - 1969
Fishermen sell their catch on the banks of the Chari - Chad - 1967
Rosso is a border community between Senegal and Mauritania, on the banks of the Senegal River. - Senegal - 1969
Kayar is a small coastal town in Senegal, north of Dakar. Artisanal fishing is the most important industry in Kayar. Every evening, hundreds of pirogues unload tons of fish on the beach. - Senegal - 1969
Sunset over the Niger River near Kabara, Mali. A 13-kilometre-long artificial canal connected Kabara with Timbuktu since the 17th century. The canal was used by pirogues and sailing ships. It served to transport people and goods and connected Timbuktu with the Niger. This canal dried up again and again in modern times and is now silted up and only visible as a ditch in some places. - Mali - 1969
The pirogue is the most popular means of transport on the Chari River - Chad - 1967
The fishermen on Lake Chad are experts at driving pirogues- Chad - 1967
There are waterholes that dry up only a few weeks before each rainy season. And yet ... after a sharp bend in the track, a river appears, a real river with much deep water, which nothing has foreseen: The Chari is barely indicated by the vegetation of its banks ... - Chad - 1967
