Monday, September 22, 2008

Congo Town

Welcome to Congo Town - my home for the next month or so.......

This is SKD Boulevard - The main road in towards the place where I'm living at the moment. Please notice the RED DIRT. Thankyou :-)


Here's a few b/w around Congo Town photos. Taking photos around Liberia is super hard hey - Just basically impossible for me to feel ok about pulling out a camera in a country like this, so these might be the only photos for a while....... apologies in advance.





Ummmm and yup, that's it - first post in the can. Comment if you dare. Not that there's really a lot to comment on, but yup.

NB - the two that are obviously posed are of guys that I know where I'm living and they both asked for it - just so you don't think that I'm just running round and asking to take peoples photos :-)

Respect.

8 comments:

ryan said...

! incredible man, especially the one with the wall. you rock.

Anonymous said...

ah red dirt. the best.

damianv said...

wow. your photos are professionale. We will be following your blog with a keen, almost fanatical interest...off now to look up Congo Town on Google Earth....

Matt said...

Bro, if you did go around asking if you could take peoples photos that'd be awesome. Not that I can really say that because I'm not there and can't possibly understand what it must be like to stick a camera in someones face but it seems like a good opportunity to capture life in Liberia - the terrain and the people.

Shoot me down if you like. I can take it.

Steven said...

What a legend photo guy - keep it up.
Cool slogan under the Congo Town sign.

Unknown said...

Tim dawg, real awesome bro!
Its cool how much of a story a photo shares :-)

kat who comments on your blog said...

"wowses" as a certain someone might say. Very real.
would you care to explain your blog title? Why small small?

tim said...

Matt - It's a hard one hey, and to be honest kinda tough to sum up unless you were here - but yeah having a camera and pointing it at people only deepens the divide that I'm trying really hard to bridge - unless of course they ask for it or they're a friend you know?

Kat - small small is a Liberian way of saying little by little. Unemployment is like 85% so everyone is just trying to scrape together a small small ting so that they can feed themselves and their families each day - yup so thought that'd be a suitable blog address because this blog will only be a very 'small small' window onto things over here.

Respect.