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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 It is also a vanity press for my unpublished (and occasionally) published work.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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Hi. I have been looking at your photos and enjoying your blog for a long time, in short I am a big fan. I have been living in Kampala for 7 months now ( but reading your blog before we even arrived!) and I find your photos such an inspiration. I have a blog too, but it is not political and I am not a journalist, so my readership is very different, I imagine. I just wanted to tell you how amazing your photography is, Now that I live here I know the difference between a quick snap and a great capture and like you, I always ask before taking photos and I never accept money. It is a privilege when someone agrees to be photographed and that comes across in all your pictures. This one is especially special. Well done and thank you!
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By the way in case you feel like coming by it is http://www.3limes.wordpress.com.
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Hi Samantha,
Thanks for sharing! Your blog is beautiful and I’m following it and you on twitter now.
Glenna
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