Lome: Grande Marche’
Lome, Togo 2000
A bird’s eye view of the Grand Marche’ in Lome. It’s a woman’s world. Now and then a man with flowing robes would stride through the crowd, but it’s the women, the “Madam Benzes”, who carry on the business of buying and selling. A Madam Benz is a woman who has done well enough in business to own a Mercedes and maybe hire a chauffeur as well. All of the women you see here, even the ones carrying their ‘shop’ in a basket on their head have dreams of being a Madam Benz one day.
To get this shot I stood on the second or third floor balcony of a building overlooking the market. Here women who could afford to rent the space did business in the shade. Ocean breezes from the Gulf of Guinea provided the air conditioning.
Here is another view of Lome’s Grand Marche’, click on this link.
http://www.rosemarysheel.com/archives/togo-market-scenes
This is a digital painting made with Alien Skin’s Snap Art 3. I liked the photo as shot, but decided that the Snap Art version had more of an African feel.