David Pace

Karaba Brick Quarry Karaba is a rural village in the southwest corner of the West African country of Burkina Faso where I have been photographing annually since 2007. Outside the village, a short distance off the dusty main road, is a quarry where men carve bricks from solid stone using...
Karaba Brick Quarry Karaba is a rural village in the southwest corner of the West African country of Burkina Faso where I have been photographing annually since 2007. Outside the village, a short distance off the dusty main road, is a quarry where men carve bricks from solid stone using picks and shovels. The colorful orange rock is called laterite (from the Latin word "later" meaning “brick”). The Karaba quarry has been in constant use for nearly thirty years. The bricks, loaded onto wagons and taken to nearby villages, are the basic building blocks for the homes, buildings, and walls that structure the surrounding communities. For me, the quarry is like a magical, ever-changing work of earth art. I have developed a lasting relationship with the men who labor there. Each year I bring back and give away prints of all the images from the previous year.
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