I’m an American photographer and journalist traipsing around Africa on the lookout for the ordinary and the extraordinary, using my camera as a pretext to enter worlds not otherwise available.
This space is a scrap book of web and life trawlings – photography, music, arts, politics, and other sundry subjects. It is also a vanity press for my unpublished (and occasionally) published work.
I found the scarlett lion on the roof a friend’s house in Kampala back in 2006 when I went through a crate of discarded items he and a few other artists had gathered. On that day, I was looking for something and I found the lion: a discarded kid’s toy made in China on the cheap, that somehow found it’s way to East Africa. Something about the hollowed out, paint chipped figurine appealed to my understanding of this amazing continent: I’d never seen a real lion, after all.
Previously based in Uganda, currently in Liberia. Always roaming.
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There’s nothing “Rwandan” about either of these photos, but I like them, so here they are. The photos that scream RWANDA aren’t the ones I’m interested in taking anymore, while when I first came to Africa, I wanted nothing but pictures of women counting beans. Well, back to Rwanda, where I first stepped foot on the continent, it’s good to see how much has changed, how much I’ve changed.
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How have you changed?
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So many ways I can hardly count them… I’ve learned to not to things like let a small piece of food fall on the floor since it will be covered in a thousand ants within minutes, I finally learned that KALE, okay in Luganda, isn’t CARE. It took awhile after I was robbed to stop being fearful and having nightmares, but that’s subsided as well. I think I’m becoming a better journalist as well, mpola mpola, slowly by slowly.
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