http://www.riccimedia.com/project-5-1 daily 0.75 2014-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51e6b9c9e4b050adffbe392c/1382133718502-9IWK15WYDOWX1V15OOGI/18.jpg Pink Panthers of Liberia - Day 1 All images by the talented Matthias Heiderich http://www.riccimedia.com/project-2-1 daily 0.75 2014-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51e6b9c9e4b050adffbe392c/1382133816779-T7492RHDOWZCIAKJYZ6L/9.jpg Oyster Gatherers in Guinea Bissau - East All images by the talented Matthias Heiderich http://www.riccimedia.com/work daily 1.0 2026-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54f6deb1e4b093866fa1de84/1514719363493-3481XL3J1WC1ZWKQOO17/1.SENEGAL_WOMENSWRESTLING_RSHRYOCK+%281+of+1%29-9.jpg Documentary photo 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 female wrestlers. Almost every year, coaches from the Senegal Women’s National Wrestling Team - who compete in the African Championships and Olympics when they qualify - come to the festival to scout new talent. Although the festival features traditional Senegalese wrestling, which differs in style and rules from freestyle, Greco-Roman wrestling that is practices at the international level, the strength and skills of the two are similar enough, says Senegal Men’s Wrestling Head Coach, Lansana Coly. Coly is from the Casamance region, and he began the women’s team 30 years ago with three wrestlers, whom he recruited at the 1996 Festival of the King of Oussouye. (Published in Buzzfeed: https://www.buzzfeed.com/monicamark/meet-the-badass-women-wrestlers-of-senegal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54f6deb1e4b093866fa1de84/1514897971751-U7KTN5GRWT2OSTOJT6JL/Bissau_Carnaval_Fashion_2016_Ricci+Shryock-9.jpg Documentary photo 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54f6deb1e4b093866fa1de84/1544019105325-156JGIO0N83M1SUWTN62/Guinea_Bissau_portfolio_LGBT-1.jpg Documentary photo - "I Have to Be Open" : The sparkling and strong LGBTQ community in Guinea Bissau As published in The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/style/guinea-bissau-lgbtq-west-africa.html Bissau, Guinea Bissau (April 9, 2018) - Branca poses in Bissau's "Old Bissau" area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54f6deb1e4b093866fa1de84/1551177712530-3AXQYOGYWWIAGLABG69M/07_2018_GUINEA_BISSAU_RELIGION_EDITS-12-3.jpg Documentary photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54f6deb1e4b093866fa1de84/1551178368383-YDZEZ5NOXJRN6KP2KI1K/January_2016_Niger_River_Edit+%281+of+1%29-29.jpg Documentary photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54f6deb1e4b093866fa1de84/1551178821356-8QFM0QGNS2C98J0SIVZI/BEATUFIUL+BOUBOU+SENEGAL+2017-8.jpg Documentary photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54f6deb1e4b093866fa1de84/1772792798733-4MGS11Y7EX213CY23W96/09_GUINEA_SIMANDOU_SMALL-53.jpg Documentary photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54f6deb1e4b093866fa1de84/1772794223591-6LB1B1IL3QZN6QAA31T6/09_GUINEA_BISSAU_BIENNALE_SMALL-7.jpg Documentary photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54f6deb1e4b093866fa1de84/1772811499817-RQVXYBJ6PSVHEH2XVHEK/02_2026_GUINEA_BISSAU_CARNAVAL_SMALL-29.jpg Documentary photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54f6deb1e4b093866fa1de84/1426012439117-R7W0TTPOG5E1QNII402P/GuineaBissau_Oysters_November2014+%2828+of+50%29.JPG Documentary photo Teresa Jaoquim surveys the land as she decides which point in the mangroves to search for oysters on Bubaque Island in Guinea Bissau. 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Faye and the Talibou Dabo team have won seven of the last eight national championships for handicapped basketball in Senegal. In April 2008, they prepared for the beginning of their ninth tournament, with hopes of an eighth championship. Here, during the nearly-two hour ride home from their first game, Ibrahima Faye entertains his team with a black flip from the rafters of the bus. Twenty-seven year old Faye is the team captain. Behind him, his daughter Bintu laughs. Faye says usually children don’t come along to out-of-town games, but Bintu (who is a daddy’s girl says her father), cried until he brought her with him for the Saturday game. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54f6deb1e4b093866fa1de84/1425911362756-QUDA0GSH5IN8JZAZC3W8/DSC_9083.jpg Documentary photo 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. 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