Sierra Leone
Latest news
26/12/2007 - I've released the last photos from Sierra Leone. Take a cup of coffee and enjoy.
15/12/2007 - the biggest Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten is interested in publishing photographs about Amputee Football Team.
11/11/2007 - I've started on editing photographs from Sierra Leone. Am very thankful to Annelise Jackbo, foremost norwegian documentary photographer, who is helping me to choose the photographs for publishing.
Prerelease notes
So far I've traveled to get to know indigenous people, new cultures, new customes. Am grateful for all magazines like National Geographic and Czech foremost travel magazines for publishing my work. But I've became 30 years old couple of days ago and at the very day I got offer from one of Czech most famous war/crisis photographers Jan Sibik to travel with him on an assignment to Sierra Leone. I never did documentary photography but it did not take long before I've sent my visa application to British Embassy here in Norway. Am explaining the reasons I did so in the next text.
Plan
We are going to Sierra Leone to visit diamond mines and capms with children soldiers. There are some other plans also but I can not write about them at this place. God bless us :-) but I trust Jan, he has been into this areas several times before.
Why would you do so???
Because I believe there are bigger problems than having a well paid job, big house and the most fancy car. Does it take you down you do not have enough money to buy the latest hi-fi sound system? How about kids loosing their homes, limbs, parents.. I feel I can do something that has meening, that I can help someone that really needs it. That is why I won't give up travels like this...
Photos
There has been published couple of photographs from my trip in the photogallery.
Diary + chat
There will be no online diary for this trip. No electricity not talking about Internet is available in Sierra Leone. You can have look on the community pages if you would like to have look on some other online diaries from my earlier trips to Ghana, Sumatra and Siberut islands.
Articles
The biggest newspaper in Norway, Aftenposten, has acquired photos of Amputee Football Team to its friday's magazine. There will be most likely more articles published in the future, I plan on writing one about the diamond mines. For the time being you can check out list of articles which I published (mostly in czech language).