Martin Waalboer: A Dream Called Harper

The Liberian coastal town of Harper is no ordinary town. This much is immediately apparent when paging through the book A Dream Called Harper by Dutch photographer Martin Waalboer. The pictures, some in colour, others in black and white, show what remains today of this once-flourishing settlement of freed slaves who began to return from the southern states of the US to the land of their ancestors as early as the 1820s. A Dream Called Harper is the subject of our latest Acquisition Highlight.