A boy ponders his
father's artificial legs, Makeni, Sierra Leone
2004. The boys parents were victims of the rebel RUF's campaign of terror and
mutilation directed against the civilian population of Sierra Leone. The
images are a return after my initial body of work in 1999 between two rebel
incursions in Freetown. On assignment from Handicap International I wanted to
make work about how the amputees' plight has been resolved in their everyday
lives. The work was published in the Guardian Weekend Magazine in August 2004
after a major touring exhibition with work from both periods.
