Category: Architecture/Landscape
“Arch in Touba”
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~cfarivar/photos/senegal/touba.jpg
This is a photo that I took of the mosque in the religious city of Touba. I feel that the arch captures the scene of the buildings in an interesting way. I was able to visit there one weekend during the spring of 2003.
Category: Best Use of Color
“Dancing”
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~cfarivar/photos/senegal/dancing.jpg
This is a picture that I took from the balcony of my host family’s third floor apartment. There was a wedding celebration of dancing women going on downstairs, and I thought I would capture the moment. Once they noticed me, they asked me to stop.
Category: “Firsts”
“Men”
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~cfarivar/photos/senegal/village_men.jpg
This is a photo of myself (second from the left), my Senegalese friend Bashir (far left), some of his uncles, and Scott, an American missionary who I met who was going soon to Guinea-Bissau. We are all dressed in “boubous”, the traditional Senegalese garb, in a village near the south central city (and Bashir’s hometown) of Medina Gounaas.
Category: “Lost in Translation”
“Bashir on the Roof”
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~cfarivar/photos/senegal/bashir_roof.jpg
This, also taken in the same village, was when Bashir, as a gesture of hospitality, wento to grab peanuts that were drying on the roof — but of course, this wasn’t obvious to us at the time. From our perspective, it seemed as if he was just taking parts of the roof and offering it to us to eat.
Category: People and Culture
“Man in Bus”
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~cfarivar/photos/senegal/man_in_diaobe.jpg
This is a man that I met on public transportation in the village of DiaobŽ. I think that it captures candidly this man’s forward looking sagicity. I also like the bleached-white color of the background of the street market during the heat of the day.
