Joe Penney is a writer and photographer based in Dakar, Senegal, interested in issues of race and power. His photos have been published by The New York Times, Le Monde, Newsweek, Reuters and more. His articles have appeared in Al Jazeera, CNN.com, Al Akhbar, and Guernica. He has covered presidential elections in Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria and Senegal, the 2012 coup in Mali and the Mali refugee crisis.