National Geographic Travelのインスタグラム(natgeotravel) - 1月12日 01時54分

Photo by @amivitale. Adema washes near her family's rice fields in the West African country of Guinea Bissau. In 2000, I received a grant from @AlexiaFoundation to document the life of the people of this small village. I thought I would visit for a few weeks. Those weeks turned into a months, then half a year. It was here — without the pressure of a deadline, or the expectation of a magazine — that I learned the importance of patience and of taking time to tell a story.

Most people have no running water, no electricity but despite what you might imagine, there was a lot of joy here. I discovered a place that is rarely reported in mainstream press. It was not the Africa of war and famines, nor was it the idealized world of safaris and exotic animals. Instead it was a look into the simplicity and beauty of how the majority of people on this planet live.

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