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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 It is also a vanity press for my unpublished (and occasionally) published work.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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Jul 21
2009
12:00 PM

Remember the really, really cute kids?

They’re kinda famous now! I sent this photo to AFP, and didn’t know it had been syndicated until I saw it in USA Today recently. I was tickled — these kids are my neighbors. They hang out in the empty lot near my house playing and being generally adorable. The other day when I was walking down the path to my house, they embraced me in a sort of kamakaze style hug, five kids deep in every direction.

Unfortunately, there’s now a big metal wall around the lot and someone’s doing construction. The kids have lost one of their play spots. The cute quotient in my life is dropping rapidly.