Published in 2010 by 5 Continents Editions, Bori presents Caroline Alida’s photographs of Bori religious practice in Niger, with attention to communities in Agadez and Dogondoutchi. The Bori tradition is associated with possession by ancestral spirits; here, the subject is approached through practitioners as well as the interior spaces in which their religious lives unfold. The book therefore moves beyond a generalized ethnographic view, placing people, rooms, and signs of practice within the same field of attention.

Alida’s black-and-white imagery is described by the publisher’s materials as a sequence of duotone photographs—55 illustrations in all. That restricted tonal vocabulary gives the project a measured, concentrated character, well suited to a subject in which visible surroundings and spiritual experience are closely intertwined. Portraiture is central, but it is not isolated from context: interiors become part of the account, and the relation between bodily presence and domestic space gives the photographs their particular documentary force.

The images are accompanied by text from Adeline Masquelier, whose contribution situates the photographs within a broader account of Bori practice. This division of roles matters. Bori is not simply a photographer’s portfolio, nor is it a text illustrated by incidental images; it is a collaboration between photographic observation and sustained cultural interpretation. The bilingual French/English edition allows those two forms of attention to remain legible together.

For collectors, the book’s value lies in the clarity of its subject and method. It records a specific religious world in Niger while maintaining a disciplined photographic language, and it gives equal weight to portrait, place, and interpretation. The 128-page hardcover with jacket, measuring 24 × 24 cm, offers a substantial setting for this carefully defined body of work without turning it into spectacle.