"I'm a Woman. I'm a Woman who wants to be Free. At every corner of the World, they're coming after me. I've been wearing my scars on my sleeves. I've been hurt on many battle fields, but I'm still standing with blood on my shield. I protected all the Women in me. I'm a Woman. I'm a Woman who wants to be Free."
I shot this portrait in Bamako at the studio of my mentor, the Iconic Malian Photographer, Malick Sidibé. It is part of a body of work I did to protest the loss of our Freedom when the war started in the north of Mali in 2012. Terrorist groups had occupied Timbuktu, Women & Girls had lost their human rights.
