J.B. Russell

Reportage: Memento Mauri: Memento Mauri

Women gather at the end of the day in a rural village to drink tea, talk and braid their hair in Gorgol province. Most of the region's men have migrated to urban areas and abroad in search of work leaving only women, children and the elderly to work the land and tend to livestock.Boitieck Ehel Aly, Mauritanie.Photo © J.B. RussellGRDR
Memento Mauri, March 2011
Women gather at the end of the day in a rural village to drink tea, talk and braid their hair in Gorgol province. Most of the region's men have migrated to urban areas and abroad in search of work leaving only women, children and the elderly to work the land and tend to livestock.
Boitieck Ehel Aly, Mauritanie.
Photo © J.B. Russell
GRDR