A2 (42x60cm) Edition of 18, A3 (30x42cm) Edition of 25 - Archival inks on Hahnemühle PhotoRag 308gsm.
“My favorite subject is English. I hope to visit an English-Speaking country one day. My dream is to become a doctor and to serve my community”, says Abibatou who is 15 and attends school in Sikasso, Mali. As Mandela so rightly said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”.
It was a harrowing time in Mali - my cameraman and I survived a suicide bomb attack in Gao and managed to return later to finish the story on education.
It gave us both a glimpse into the tremendous adversity and increasingly challenging circumstances that young children, (and especially girls) are facing in Mali, even just trying to receive an education.