The road from Monrovia to Freetown takes anywhere from 10 to 16 hours. My journey there took 16 hours, making the return 12 hour trip seem like a breeze. But when you get to the beaches on the Freetown Peninsula, it all seems worth it.
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 It is also a vanity press for my unpublished (and occasionally) published work.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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Jul 28
2010
11:15 AM
2010
11:15 AM
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So beautiful! I did this same exact route in 2003. I didn’t bring a camera though so this is the first time I’m seeing pictures. Keep up the great work.
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