Photo project by Fernando Moleres: Pademba – a prison for teenagers in Sierra Leone

Photo project by Fernando Moleres, dedicated to Sierra Leone - a small country in West Africa, known throughout the world for its low standard of living and, perhaps, the most beautiful African landscapes. However, more recently, the image of the state was added to the title of one of the sources of the Ebola epidemic.

Sierra Leone has a special prison called Pademba, to which Fernando Moleres dedicated this project, eventually receiving a grant named after Tim Hetherington. Pademba differs from any other prison in that it only holds teenagers who are awaiting trial for several years.



As an illustration, the photographer cites the story of a young man named Abdul Moresay - he was in prison on charges of murder in 2007, when he was still a child. Abdul went to the river with a friend about the same age – the boy drowned, and his parents blamed Abdul for everything: he had no chance of getting help from his family or lawyers, so he spent four years at Pademba waiting for a verdict. Similar stories can be boasted by most teenagers in this colony - about their lives behind bars and immediately after the release of Fernando Moleres and shoots their projects.















































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