A Gallery: Hot tin roofs

August 21, 2026No locationBimbling Beck

During a short week in The Gambia, the thing that stood out most for us were the roofs. The colour and the patterns were particularly eye-catching here in comparison to the similarly-styled but rusty brown Bissau-Guinean ones. Here is a sample of those we snapped along the way (there are plenty more in the photo album… we’ll spare you those!)

A patterned tin roof with red and yellow checkerboard colours
Red-yellow checkerboard
A bright blue shiny tin roof on a concrete building with a cow entering the door.
Blue. Spot the cow.
An orange and purple tin roof on a concrete building
Orange-purple half-and-half
A brilliantly shiny tin roof on a concrete building
Shiny shiny!
A rusted tin roof on a square mosque with small minaret
Rusty mosque
A red and green striped tin roof on a mint green mosque
Red-green striped mosque
A tall, steeply pitched dark turquoise tin roof
Dark turquoise
A large blue tin roof on a concrete building
Shades of blue. Spot the foli fruit in the foreground.
A lime green tin roof on a concrete building
Lime green
Red and green checkerboard tin roof
Red-green checkerboard
Rust and yellow striped tin roof on a small concrete shop
Red-yellow stripes
Red and green checkerboard tin roof on a large building
Red-green checkerboard
Red tin roof on a small concrete block building
Red
Red and blue and red and yellow checkerboard tin roofs
Red-blue and red-yellow checkerboard
A red and green parasol-type tin roof of a shelter
Red-green mismatch
Abstract rust and yellow coloured tin roof on a concrete block building
Red-yellow abstract
Rusted silver tin roof on a shelter
Once shiny
Rusted and warped tin roof on an abandoned building
Rusty and bent
A part rusted roof on a painted building referencing Amadou Bamba Sow
Part-rusted
The underside of a tin roof with wooden rafters around a central wooden pole
Rafters
A concrete building with metal rafters forming the roof
Metal rafters
A large concrete building with a complex set of wooden rafters forming the roof
Wooden rafters
A tin roof in construction with visible wooden rafters extending beyond the tin covering
Red-blue in progress
A man sits next to a forming machine making green corrugated tin roof panels
The raw materials
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