Photographer, writer, reporter. Going through life with an eye towards creating records and histories.
On the roof a a friend’s house in Nakasero, Kampala back in 2006, 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. Something about the hollowed out, paint chipped toy 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. This blog provides curiosities, commentary, and photos.
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Ugandan police beat opposition party supporters during a protest rally Friday, Nov. 23, 2007, in Kampala, Uganda, Three people were seriously injured when police and Ugandan opposition supporters clashed on Friday during a demonstration against the Commonwealth meeting taking place in Uganda, said an Ugandan opposition lawmaker. (AP Photo/Glenna Gordon)
All over the web, here’s one place, MSNBC….
Congolese refugee’s arrive on the back of a truck, Monday, Oct 29, 2007 at the Nyakabanda transit camp near Kisoro, a reception centre in Uganda, (10 miles – 15 kms) from the Congo border set up by the United Nations Refugee Agency. Violence in eastern Congo has reached new levels. The remote, vast and lawless land has become a playground for roaming militias and armed groups who terrorize civilians.(AP Photo/Glenna Gordon)
