Djado

Djado ~ [Niger]

Source: http://saharaterritory.byethost22.com/djado.htm

Djado

The town of Djado is steeped in moonlight and mystery. Once it was a station on a slave-trading route between Niger and Libya. Surrounded by malarial swamps, adobe dwellings are now occupied by scorpions and snakes. The Djado Plateau lies in the Sahara, in north eastern Niger. It is known for its cave art (often of large mammals long since absent from the area), but is now largely uninhabited, with abandoned towns and forts visible.

Djado

Woman of the Tenere

Portrait of a toubou woman from the village of Chirfa, near the abandoned town of Djado, in the north of Niger. These villages are located in the Tenere desert, a very desolated area, which shows a crude landscape of endless dunes of sand, scorched by the terrible heat that sun irradiates...

The painting was made with oils in a wooden table, from an original photo taken around 1960. I only used black, white and natural siena colors to paint it.