Taken at Tokpombu Nongowa, a village on Dama Road just south of Kenema in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. Here the local Bondo Devil stops to dance with a villager. My wife, Susan, is in the picture - she is in the back on the left. This was...
Village chief, Pa Foday, was also a weaver of local "country cloth." Here on his veranda, he weaves traditional cotton cloth on a tripod Mende loom. Pa Foday was a very amusing man. Although he spoke little in the way of English, from time to time,...
Taken on Dama Road in Kenema in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone, and at the house across the road from where I lived, young Elizabeth poses with her nearly year old daughter on the veranda of her house. Elizabeth was one of our first friends....
While I was a Volunteer, I had a simple dark room to develop negatives. Neighbors got wind of this and soon they were asking me to take their pictures. I would give them a printed picture in exchange. In this photo, Joe William and his wife and...