One of Berlin’s finest pieces of 19th century architecture. The Neue Synagoge was built between 1859 and 1866 as the main synagogue of the Berlin Jewish community. It is the…
Jonathan Borofsky’s giant aluminium creation, Molecule Man is one of the great symbols of Berlin, installed in the late 1970s, but to me expressing the new optimism and unity of…
Taking convincing pictures of rain is extremely difficult, you really need an intense tropical downpour for rain to be at all visible to the stills camera. Raindrops make a satisfactory…
One afternoon I went down to one of the poorest quarters of Monrovia, around Gurley Street in the central district, to see a game of disabled football (it’s a different…
Children are everywhere in most African countries (returning to Europe you are conscious of how old everyone looks). Whip out a camera and soon smiling kids are staring curiously down…
This image is representative of what happened to Liberia during the period 1989 to 2003, where the country effectively died as a modern state. In July 1990, rebel forces under…
Unsurprisingly for a society recently exposed to unimaginable cruelty, hardship and human suffering, religious graffiti in Liberia often strikes a decidedly desperate (and sometimes menacing) tone. Like almost all Sub-Saharan…
West Point, a large slum built on a sandy spit close to downtown Monrovia, is one of the city’s poorest and toughest neighbours. It has a youthful population, and is…
Standing upon a large rock, a man considers the sea, on an isolated beach close to Liberia’s second city of Buchanan. The city saw very heavy fighting during the civil…
The dilapidation of Waterside, one of Monrovia’s oldest districts, is evident here. However, the area is still commercially very important, containing one of Monrovia’s busiest and most vibrant markets.
