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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 It is also a vanity press for my unpublished (and occasionally) published work.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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Sep 14
2009
6:52 PM

tooth-brushing diva: photo of the day

tooth brushing diva: photo of the day

A couple of weeks ago, I went to Ganta, a town on the border of Liberia and Guinea with UNICEF to do some photos of the first six year olds who are starting first grade this year having never seen war in their lifetime. I’ll most more photos from this as soon as they’re up on the UNICEF website, probably tomorrow, but in the meantime let me introduce you to Salomie Kieah. At first when I started taking her picture, she was all fake shy. But, she was beyond cute and I could instantly tell that with even a tiny bit of waiting, she’d drop the shy and embrace the diva. And she did. Here she is, brushing her teeth wearing her shinny pink sunglasses, because you know, most people wear their sunglasses to brush their teeth.