My Sudan year
My Sudan Year is a 1912 London travel account by Ethel Stefana Drower, published by Mills & Boon, describing life in the Sudan. Its four photographic plates, printed rotated on the page, show Sudanese villages with conical thatched huts, a row of women carrying large clay pots, a crowd of men holding spears and staffs, and a rocky hillside with figures. Designers could take from them the clean monochrome documentary look of early twentieth-century halftone photography, with strong diagonal rhythm in the village rows and the stark contrast between dense thatch and bare ground.
