Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category
Procrastinating
The best way to avoid doing work you don’t want to do is to convince yourself of the necessity of doing work that you do want to do. I saw these shots from Mali that I took last spring and I wanted to share them with you.
Back to Honduras
I was in Honduras this past December shooting for World Vision’s Victoria Campaign for Children. Tomorrow I am headed back to shoot for World Vision’s Gift Catalogue. When I was there in December I shot the above photos but I was so sick that I can barely remember the experience. I’m really excited to go back and really take it all in.
Boston and beyond
I took last week off. For the first half of the week my friend Marco and I went to Boston. When I came home I slept like it was my day job and dedicated my evenings to juvenile behavior. (I highly recommend this type of vacation.) Today I’m back to work in full force and loving it.
Three years
It has been 3 years since we were in Kisumu Kenya. I can’t believe it.
Mother & Daughter
I’m going to see my Mum who I’ve missed since she’s been away. For some reason it made me think of these photos that I shot in India of Sonam (left) and her mother Honey (right).
A Little R&R
I’m sitting in my favourite spot in the apartment. On the couch that I purchased in one of those moments of “I am an adult.” My feet up on an old chest that Laura Butler found on the street ages ago. Relaxed. It has been quite a summer. Emily, John, Dar and I started Little City a couple of weeks ago and I was so proud to launch it with our friends on August 13th.
The Hope Moment also defined the summer. Putting the show together, going back and forth to Ottawa, articles in Le Droit, the Ottawa Citizen, and 24 Hours, interviews on A Morning, the exhibition and back for an interview on CTV. It was most thrilling to end the summer the way it began by heading back down to El Salvador. I feel like I have made friends with the landscape, the smells and the towns. The progress in just in three months is encouraging and so is meeting incredible families who persevere. Below is a photo of Jermias De Jesus and Maria Emely the smallest children in a family that is struggling. Hopefully with World Vision continuing to work in their community by creating micro-enterprises, schools and other jobs, families like theirs will have more opportunity.
I’m glad for the brief rest. I’m headed to Bamako on the weekend via Paris. I’m really excited to share this western part of Africa with you.
A Thousand Stories
An exciting part of having a new site is that I get to share whole bodies of previously unseen work with you . I’ve been working on putting up galleries for my trips with World Vision. I shot thousands upon thousands of photos in Ethiopia, South Africa, Brazil and El Salvador . As you can imagine it is quite a task to sort through. The images above are a small preview of what’s to come from the Ethiopia gallery in the next few days. Nicolette and I were there gathering stories about female genital mutilation. The gallery focuses on the stories of women and girls as they cope with the harmful traditional practice. It was quite an experience to get to know these women, to be trusted with their stories and to help them have an international voice.
