Mali’s Dogon Country can feel like a deliciously African evocation of the remote. ... too, has an otherworldly quality, clinging to the Bandiagara Escarpment as if an extension of the rock itself.

The village at the foot of the Bandiagara escarpment is approximately one kilometer long and is divided by a steep-walled gorge accessible only by foot. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon ...

The region around Bandiagara, in central Mali's Mopti Region, is struggling to cope with the dual crises of successive poor harvests and the near-total collapse of its once-thriving tourist industry.