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Introducing Kids in Madagascar to Photography: Results (1)
I wrote last time about the youth center, Le Cameleon, we crowdfunded and built in Antananarivo, Madagascar, and the project we organized to introduce a half dozen interested kids to photography, using point-and-shoot film cameras from the 1980s and 90s. I was excited and hopeful the kids would wind up with good results, because I
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Dispatch from Sierra Leone: Walking in Freetown
There are two seasons in Sierra Leone: Â the dry season…and the rainy season. Â Although there is some rain in the “dry” season, the vast majority of the 3Â meters of rain that fall on Freetown during a typical year occur between May and October, with an average of an inch a day in August. Â Some people
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Sunday Photowalk through the ‘Hood
Monsoon season has come to Chennai, India.  According to the weather reports, it’s only raining in Chennai.  But it seems that all the rain which should have fallen elsewhere is also falling in Chennai.  So when I woke up this morning for the planned photowalk in town (with other photographers) and heard the pouring rain, I
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Just Like Riding a Bike
Sometimes it’s easy to take things for granted. Â Like learning how to ride a bike. Â Among other things, we teach sports at the Resource Center, an after-school program for kids under age 14, at the Jakob Marengo School in Katutura, the poor and predominantly black township in the northern edge of Windhoek, Namibia. Usually we