’42 Women of Sierra Leone’ International Slavery Museum Exhibit

From a basket carried on her head this beautiful young woman sells charcoal to light the fires and cooking pots of Kroo Bay in Freetown, Sierra Leone, a slum to several thousand people. Copyright Lee Karen Stow

The International Slavery Museum in Liverpool currently has an exhibit by photojournalist Lee Karen Stow.  ’42’ Women of Sierra Leone – an exhibition of 42 portraits of the women of Sierra Leone, will be shown  from 4 March 2011 to 15 April 2012.  For more info