Jeff and Andrew Topham
LIBERIA '77 – Photo is Life
Jeff and Andrew Topham discuss the importance of photography in the rebuilding of a society devastated by war.
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In 2010, brothers Jeff and Andrew Topham returned to the war-torn West African country of their childhood, Liberia. Discovering that much of Liberia’s photographic record of its peaceful past had been destroyed by war, they created a documentary and online photo project culminating in an exhibition that was housed at the National Museum in…
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Jeff Topham & Andrew Topham
In 2010, brothers Jeff and Andrew Topham returned to the war-torn West African country of their childhood, Liberia.