For the new year, I’m going to be introducing a new feature on my blog called: “Come Along For The Ride”. “Come Along For The Ride” will be a series of video journals shot on location, in which I’ll not only be describing my work, but also providing insights into what I do, and why […]
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A Tribute To Rose
(November 14th) This morning I got the news that Rose passed away. You may remember Rose from my post of August 31, 2011 entitled “Perseverance”. Rose, an abandoned, gravely ill 13 year old girl, was a patient a Hopital Albert Schweitzer in Haiti, while I was there shooting an assignment. Before reading further you might […]
NGO Assignment Sri Lanka: Pettah Market, Colombo
As I write this post, I’m sitting in the Thai Airways departure area of Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport. I’m finished with work in Sri Lanka, and am heading back to California. The last batch of images that I will share from my Asia Foundation shoot, is from Pettah Market, Fort railway station and Gangaramaya Temple in […]
NGO Assignment: The Asia Foundation, Sri Lanka, Continued…
I’m going to post some shots today; nothing specific to any Asia Foundation programs, but rather, some fun shots of life in Sri Lanka. When I’m shooting for an NGO, I am often shooting meetings or other activities. Whenever there is “down-time”, I spend the time gathering images that might work for a multitude of […]
NGO Assignment: The Asia Foundation, Promoting Peace in Sri Lanka
If there’s one thing that I’ve learned in all my years shooting for NGO’s is that the successful NGOs are the ones that create “sustainable” long term projects. To be sustainable, projects in countries like Sri Lanka must be based on “local efforts”. The Asia Foundation’s program of helping the police to integrate with the […]
NGO Assignment Sri Lanka: The Asia Foundation
Sunday, I left Calcutta to fly to Columbo, Sri Lanka, to shoot another job for The Asia Foundation, I was just here in Sri Lanka in September, but there’s new material to shoot, so I’m making a stop here before I head back to the states. It’s hard to believe that I’ve been on the […]
NGO Assignment, Kolkata’s Railway Station: Stopping Polio Dead in its Tracks
My first job out of graduate school was selling vaccines for Lederle Pharmaceutical Company, so isn’t ironic that today I find myself shooting pictures of Polio Vaccine being used half a world away, in India. Polio has been eradicated in the USA, due to an aggressive and effective vaccination program which started years ago, but […]
NGO Assignment: Freedom From Hunger Day 2, West Bengal, India
Freedom From Hunger works with many local partners around the world to help provide loans to folks who don’t have access to credit. Perhaps you’re wondering what a typical meeting looks like, and how I photograph them. I usually start with an “establishing shot” while walking to the meeting in order to provide viewers with […]
Assignment Freedom From Hunger: West Bengal, India
East India is the poorest region in this large and populous country. Freedom from Hunger’s work is focused in east India, where they bring self-help services to the poorest communities in the poorest states. Freedom From Hunger is one of my oldest clients; my first assignment with them was in Haiti in 2001. This week, […]
Sri Lanka NGO Assignment: A Few More Photo Tips
This will be my last post with images from my Asia Foundation Sri Lanka assignment. I hope you have enjoyed my thoughts and insights about shooting for an NGO. For this final Sri Lanka post, I have selected 45 images to show and although I could probably go on and on about each one of […]
