Mohammed Essabi (center) with me (right) and clients who were traveling from America. This was taken at the home of the rais of Tamesloht, who was Essabi's first patron. This was the first sale of Essabi's work.
This is my neighbor, Mohammed Lamine. He's standing against the outside wall of his compound in Kindia, Guinea. When I first arrived, at the sight of me, he would turn and run away in the opposite direction screaming and crying. Most often, he...