{"id":6161,"date":"2010-10-08T06:10:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T14:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=6161"},"modified":"2010-10-08T06:10:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T14:10:19","slug":"im-jealous-of-liberia-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/08\/im-jealous-of-liberia-77\/","title":{"rendered":"i&#8217;m jealous of liberia &#8217;77"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/liberia1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6204\" title=\"liberia\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/liberia1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"2024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I absolutely <em>love<\/em> this project! Ok, let&#8217;s start with the jealous part. Canadian artists <em>{and brothers}<\/em> Jeff and Andrew Topham did what most of us would love to do &#8211; they got to relive their childhoods&#8230; kinda. In the late 1970&#8217;s they lived in beautiful, war-free Liberia. They played on the beach, ran around the jungle, and even had a pet chimp named Evelyn. Their dad, John, documented all of it through his own amazing photographs <em>{also part of the series}<\/em>, labeling his negatives, and ultimately giving this project it&#8217;s title&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberia77.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Liberia &#8217;77<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So this is where it gets inspiring\/scary. Thirty years later Jeff, a film maker, and Andrew, a photographer, decided to go back to the location of their idyllic childhood and document the changes. As you can imagine, they were drastic <em>{note the two &#8220;gas stations&#8221; above&#8230; yes, those are jars of siphoned gas in 2010}<\/em>. Jeff and Andrew have created a series of photographs, and are currently working on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberia77.com\/documentary\/\" target=\"_blank\">documentary<\/a>. So far I&#8217;ve only seen the photos, and the stories behind them made me tear up almost instantly. I imagine I&#8217;ll need a full box of tissues for the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I absolutely love this project! Ok, let&#8217;s start with the jealous part. Canadian artists {and brothers} Jeff and Andrew Topham did what most of us would love to do &#8211; they got to relive their childhoods&#8230; kinda. In the late 1970&#8217;s they lived in beautiful, war-free Liberia. They played on the beach, ran around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,533,43,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6161"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6213,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161\/revisions\/6213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}