“My home is my castle” – true, if one has a home. Others have to seek shelter in constructions that hardly deserve the term “building’. The Planta Building is located in the Smythe Road Community, on Old Road, one of the many slums in Monrovia, capitol of Liberia, on the West African coast. Run by a lady who sets the rules, its inhabitants are called “Zogos” – Liberian English slang for “zombie”. Mostly unemployed young men, who try to make ends meet by all necessary means, many of which fall outside the law, Zogos are often the abandoned children of former child soldiers from the cruel civil war that raged in Liberia between 1989 and 2003. The Planta Building is not only a shelter, but also a space for prayer and community. This booklet is part of a series of portraits shot in February and July 2022. – Munich, November 2022