Pieter Hugo's photograph depicts Mohammed Bah, a young Boy Scout from Monrovia, Liberia, captured with the documentary precision characteristic of Hugo's portraiture work. The archival pigment print, flush mounted to emphasize the image's surface and presence, presents its subject with unflinching directness, inviting viewers to confront questions of identity, youth, and representation within a postcolonial context. Hugo's series examines the complexities of institutional structures and cultural inheritance in contemporary West Africa through intimate, unflinching portraiture.