Binta means daughter in Arabic. This young woman is a nomadic herdsman from the Peule tribe of northern Mali. Her people have a symbiotic relationship with the Dogon tribe in the south, exchanging goods and services twice a year during the dry season. Every day during my stay with them, Binta invited me into her hut for tea after my morning photography sessions. We talked about relationships and our mothers. She told me that her mother had given her the beautiful gold earrings she was wearing. I commented that she must have a good relationship with her. She replied that it had improved remarkable after the birth of her second child, shown in the photograph.
