ricci shryock | journalist & photographer

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    • Guissguiss : Senegal
    • Sacred Forests of Guinea Bissau - with Young Nuno
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    • Life Along the Niger River
    • "Our god is Stronger - - can biodiverse Bijagós fend off evangelical threat?"
    • "I Have to Be Open" : The sparkling and strong LGBTQ community in Guinea Bissau
    • Meet the Badass Women Wrestlers of Senegal
    • Beautiful Boubous
    • Clash of Fashion and Tradition In Guinea Bissau
    • Ebola outbreak in West Africa
    • Pink Panthers in Monrovia
    • Oyster Gatherers in Guinea Bissau
    • Handicap Basketball in Senegal
    • Ebola Survivors
  • Documentary Video
    • An Ebola Social Worker in Sierra Leone
    • Ebola Body Collector in Sierra Leone
    • Ebola Survivors Fight Stigma In Liberia
    • The Gravedigger and the President
    • Life after Ebola: The Fisherman's Story
    • Life After Ebola: Songs from the Ashes
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    • Guissguiss : Senegal
    • Sacred Forests of Guinea Bissau - with Young Nuno
    • Writing
    • Life Along the Niger River
    • "Our god is Stronger - - can biodiverse Bijagós fend off evangelical threat?"
    • "I Have to Be Open" : The sparkling and strong LGBTQ community in Guinea Bissau
    • Meet the Badass Women Wrestlers of Senegal
    • Beautiful Boubous
    • Clash of Fashion and Tradition In Guinea Bissau
    • Ebola outbreak in West Africa
    • Pink Panthers in Monrovia
    • Oyster Gatherers in Guinea Bissau
    • Handicap Basketball in Senegal
    • Ebola Survivors
    • An Ebola Social Worker in Sierra Leone
    • Ebola Body Collector in Sierra Leone
    • Ebola Survivors Fight Stigma In Liberia
    • The Gravedigger and the President
    • Life after Ebola: The Fisherman's Story
    • Life After Ebola: Songs from the Ashes
    • Recently Published Work
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Dakar
Senegal
       
     
Documentary photo / Life Along the Niger River
       
     
Documentary photo / "Our god is Stronger - - can biodiverse Bijagós fend off evangelical threat?"
"I Have to Be Open" : The sparkling and strong LGBTQ community in Guinea Bissau
       
     
Documentary photo / "I Have to Be Open" : The sparkling and strong LGBTQ community in Guinea Bissau
 Oussouye, Senegal (September 29, 2017) - At the Festival of the King of Oussouye, girls and young women participate in traditional wrestling as well as the men. The area, in Senegal’s southern Casamance region, is home to most of the country’s femal
       
     
Documentary photo / Meet the Badass Women Wrestlers of Senegal
       
     
Documentary photo / Beautiful Boubous
 Bissau, Guinea Bissau (February 5, 2016) - Members and fans of the Iris Carnaval group in Bissau wait while their teammates prepare for dance practice for the big party.
       
     
Documentary photo / Clash of Fashion and Tradition In Guinea Bissau
 A healthcare worker at an Ebola Treatment Unit in Nzerekore, Guinea on February 4, when there were 11 confirmed Ebola patients at the center.
       
     
Documentary photo / Ebola outbreak in West Africa
 Dearest Coleman, one of the leaders of the Pink Panthers, a collective of female motorcycle taxi drivers in Monrovia. Dearest wipes sweat from her face after dropping off a passenger. February 19, 2015.
       
     
Documentary photo / Pink Panthers in Monrovia
 Teresa Jaoquim surveys the land as she decides which point in the mangroves to search for oysters on Bubaque Island in Guinea Bissau. The market where she sells the oysters is more than an hour's walk from her village, Anacamona. The&
       
     
Documentary photo / Oyster Gatherers in Guinea Bissau
  Dakar, Senegal (2008) - Ibrahima Faye is captain of the Talibou Dabo handicap basketball team in Dakar, Senegal. Faye and the Talibou Dabo team have won seven of the last eight national championships for handicapped basketball in Senegal. In&n
       
     
Documentary photo / Handicap Basketball in Senegal
  Forecariah, Guinea (June, 2015) - Alseny Toure cries as he looks at a photograph of his wife for the first time since her death from Ebola in Janaury. Toure lost 15 members of his family including sisters, both of his parents, his wife, and ni
       
     
Documentary photo / Ebola Survivors