
Guardian photographer Sean Smith spent a week inĀ Timbuktu, Mali‘s ‘city in the middle of nowhere’, photographing people, buildings and theirĀ changing world.
See the whole series:
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/sep/16/-sp-timbuktu-portrait-of-a-city-on-the-edge-of-existence-in-pictures