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About Scarlett Lion
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 It is also a vanity press for my unpublished (and occasionally) published work.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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What could that be? A generator shack?
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Actually, it’s the top part of a truck – like the part that would cover the pick up part. There’s probably some technical term for that thing, but I don’t know what it is.
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I can almost smell the dirt.
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Glad to find you through Holli’s Ramblings. Love your portrait work especially as I’m keen on faces. Nice to meet you.
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I also found you through Holli, and was immediately glad I did. What a lovely picture. Slightly threatening while still being rather inviting. Interesting duality in that image. It remind of dreams, that kind of uncertain, “What will this be?” quality we have in them.
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I expect to see Yoda pop out of the top at any moment.
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