Film Contest
September 8, 2010 in Africa, conflict, contestsIf you have time, please vote for this film in the View Change online film contest. I made it together with student Lauren Malkani, from the University of Miami on maternal health in Sierra Leone. If it wins, I'm donating the money to the people in the film. It would be so nice to be able to make a difference to these women who opened up their own lives to us. http://www.linkRead More
Tools for the Freelancer
March 26, 2010 in Websites, photographyThe changes in our business over the past few years are truly hard to comprehend. I am sympathetic to the difficulties for so many in our business as newspapers and magazines close, jobs are lost, and people struggle to see where the business of journalism is headed. While I read all the epithets, I still believe it is an incredibly exciting time to be a journalist. Never have we had so many tools and so much access to stories and people. Never have we all been so connected and yet, now more ... Read More
Return to Sierra Leone
March 24, 2010 in Africa, Multimedia, Nikon, conflict, photography, travel, warI am leaving tomorrow to Freetown, Sierra Leone filled with feelings of anxiety as well as hope. The last time I was there was just a few months after the brutal civil war ended in 2002 that claimed tens of thousands of lives and left more than a third of its population displaced. Yet it is the unspeakable atrocities that are so haunting. I remember back in 1999, Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora, a friend and extremely committed journalist, who was later killed covering the conflict, told me stories ... Read More
Flight for Survival: How it happened?
March 12, 2010 in Africa, horns, photography, poaching, rhinos, travel, zooThey are huge but gentle, lumbering beasts and there are only eight left on the entire planet. Scientists believe the magnificent Northern White rhinos are nearly extinct. There are rumors of some, a few at best, in Southern Sudan but none have been seen for many years now. These eight, two in the San Diego Zoo and six in the Dvur Kralove Zoo in cold, snowy Czech Republic ... Read More
Lumen Dei Workshop in Ladakh, India
September 29, 2009 in India, Ladakh, Lumen Dei, Seminar, photography, travel, workshopsJust back from Ladakh, India where I had the privilege of working with David Duchemin, Matt Brandon and 8 extremely talented photographers. We explored the bustling back streets of Old Delhi, the Sufi shrine of Nizamuddin and then headed up to the Khardungla Pass to cross the worlds highest motorable road at 18,380 feet. The road is situated on an ancient trade route from Leh ... Read More
New Beginnings
August 29, 2009 in Websites, interactivity, internet, photographyThank you Jayson Singe of Neonsky.com for helping me design my original website which was created almost nine years ago. Nine years... eternity in the world of the web. I am grateful for his immense talent, sensibilities and innovative ideas. The site helped launch my career as a photojournalist and also became a prototype for many of the online flash portfolios that photographers and ... Read More
