The Marks of Man

Here are some photographs from every day life in the Gambia. I used a old Nikon F4, I bought from a tourist. Bakau market Proud Mum Boys playing in the street

Street scenes from the Mid 1980's. Interestingly, there exists a much smaller village within the old village called Bakau Wasulung Kunda, indicating the migrant origins of its inhabitants. As people began to move out of Banjul , government allocated residential areas quickly sprung around the old village, acquiring new names in the process.   What were farms of the local population became well planned suburbs filled with bungalows such as Fajara, New Town and Cape Point.

When I was young I lived in Gambia for a while. I never printed any of my thousands of photographs so I have borrowed a film scanner and started work. This is a girl in Serrekunda (or Serekunda ) is the largest city in The Gambia , lying southwest of Banjul . Its population as of 2006, was 335,733 people. Although Banjul is The Gambia's capital, it is on an island, making further growth difficult and channeling much of the growth to Serekunda.  I worked for aid agency's, documenting funded Projects.   After independence in 1965, the public sector intensified its involvement in forestry in 1976. The forestry was reorganized and upgraded to become one of eight departments within the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources. In 1981, the FD was transferred to the Ministry of Water Resources, Fisheries and Forestry, which was later renamed into Ministry of Natural