March 2011 Calendar Wallpaper: A Nomadic Way of Life
In the Fulani village of Jolooga in northern Burkina Faso, villagers stand outside a traditional house made from woven mats of straw. Traditionally pastoralist, this house can be disassembled and reassembled at will, as the family and their livestock crisscross the Sahel in search of fresh water and green pastures. Download the March 2011 calendar [...]
January 2011 Calendar Wallpaper: An Intense Gaze
In West Africa, certain villages have markets that “assemble” at regular intervals, such as weekly or every three days. People from villages around the region come on market day to buy and sell food, livestock, and other goods and services. Last month, I visited the village of Bourro in northern Burkina Faso on its market [...]
Helping Out a Student at American University
A student at American University – Jaclyn – e-mailed me last week. She needed to interview a professional in the field of mass communication for an understanding media class. Because she’s interested in photography and wanted to learn about the career of a professional photographer, she googled photojournalist in Washington, DC and was drawn to my cultural, humanitarian, [...]
December 2010 Calendar Wallpaper is Here! “Hidden from View,” Burkina Faso, West Africa
If you’ve been following my blog over the past months, you’ll know that I pre-wrote this calendar wallpaper post because I’m actually traveling as we speak in…Burkina Faso, West Africa! So I thought it would only be fitting to make a December calendar wallpaper in honor of my last trip to Burkina in 2007. This [...]
Making a trip to Uganda not JUST a trip to Uganda
At the beginning of 2010, ephotos.com published an interview of me, and featured my travel/humanitarian photography on the front page of their website for several months. A few days ago, I received an e-mail from a student photographer named Jessica, who wrote to me after reading the interview. Here’s what she said: I hope this doesn’t [...]
Global Obligation
I was catching up on posts at one of my favorite photography blogs, 2-Consider for Humanitarian Photographers, by Heber Vega. The blog quotes a letter written by Roger Waters, an English rock musician, to a Chilean friend after the February 27, 2010 earthquake in chile. I quote two phrases from his letter here, because I want [...]
Photographer Review: Irene Abdou
A member of the Gaithersburg Camera Club – Rosemary Smith – approached me a few weeks ago. She is taking an Intro to Digital Photography course at Montgomery College, and her class was given an assignment to write a report on a famous photographer. She felt strongly about interviewing a photographer whose work she felt [...]
Selection of my Africa fine art photography now online at Gallery Serengeti’s e-store!
I first exhibited with Gallery Serengeti back in March/April 2008. The gallery is run by a very nice guy named Wisson West who is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (like me) from Kenya and was the Associate Peace Corps Director in Tanzania. He specializes in “fine art from an African pot.” (Don’t you like that [...]