The Butcherman, a photo from Kasese, Western

Photographer's Note

This picture shows the selling of cows meat in a village in Westen Uganda. The villagers are standing in a line to get the best parts. The cow suffocated because it had eaten a plastic bag.

The villigers have no acces to electricity or running water. That's why many people come to take this opportunity of buying fresh meat.

For people who want to work at the farm as volunteers in Uganda (the area is absolutely save far from the north!!) are most welcome; it's a great experience....for more information you can look at the website we made for the organisation:

www.cetrud.org

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taivo (1843) 2004-05-29 23:51

Welcome to TE, Michiel!

This is a very interesting scene. The people are nicely spaced out. I think, the colours are a bit flat (quite normal when using a flash) so you may want to enhance the saturation and contrast a bit with PS. Also, a bit of sharpening could be nice for the shot too. I did a workshop and I hope you like it.

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gerbil (231) 2004-06-06 4:45

Thanks for this rare picture and the story along with it. Great job of documentary photography.
Greetings from Werner

atoti (71) 2005-11-24 7:25

Great picture Michiel! I always love to see daily life pictures of Africa, far from touristical places... Good composition, taivo's workshop a nice improvment of sharpness. Please post more daily life pictures from Uganda!