Mud Mosques of Mali

As a photography student, traveling by bicycle for several months in 1996 and 1997 through the inlands of Mali, I was working on a series of portraits. On my way, the beauty of small adobe mosques in remote villages astonished me as they revealed themselves as the living tissue of an age-old architecture.

Mud Mosques: The B&W Prints

This selection of images accompanies and enhances the complete Mud Mosques of Mali collection. Dramatically photographed in black and white by Belgian photographer Sebastian Schutyser between 1998-2002, these stark images present the mosque as object. These black and white prints -- also presented in the larger collection -- stand on their own, commanding a special view.