With 'Desert Despair' I wanted to shout out a piece of cloth made by a friend. The shirt is very special to me because on top of being designed by a close friend, it takes me back to my roots and gives a feeling of expressing myself. The desert theme was also the most obvious since my country of origin, Mali, is 65% percent made of desert.
When I had the idea for this shoot, I was in Boston with no access to a desert. We then drove to the beach with some friends, and took the photos in the middle of the day. It required a lot of editing to recreate the desert and drone effect.
