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 It is also a vanity press for my unpublished (and occasionally) published work.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.
I know that I’m mixing the French term for “Cameroon” with the English term for “caterer,” but I kind of feel like a mash up is the best way to describe this pleasant country, which I’ve alternatively heard described as either the best of or the worst of a combination of Nigeria and Congo. Either way, these caterers’ ties were definitely one of the best parts of an event I attended the other day.
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Hi Glena, where are you? this is unusual that you have not posted for so long. I hope yopu are OK.
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Hi J,
Thanks for your message – I’m touched that you noticed my absence! Everything’s fine on my end. It’s just been an incredibly busy couple of months for me and I’m finally on a bit of a vacation right now.
Posting will resume as normal next week
-SL
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J. Harris Reply:
March 25th, 2010 at 6:48 PM
@Scarlett Lion,Hi Glenna, very good to know that you are well and ok. Enjoy your vacation and we will hear from you when you return…take care!
J. Harris
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