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Last Saturday was the 2010 DC Caribbean Carnival, which is held every year during the last weekend of June. It launches with a parade with dancers in traditional Carribean carnival costumes. My husband and I rushed into DC early Saturday morning, still 30 minutes late, only to find that this really IS a Caribbean Carnival! [...] I delivered eight pieces of artwork to Gallery Serengeti in Capitol Heights, Maryland a few weekends ago. Gallery Serengeti specializes in “Fine Art from an African Pot” (love that tagline…) Swing by and check it out when you have a chance! They’re located at 7919 Central Avenue, Capital Heights, MD 20743. (Click on “view with PicLens” [...] 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 [...] Photo of a Dinka boy in a cattle camp near Rumbek, South Sudan. The white marks on his face are cow dung ash and is used by the Dinka as a cosmetic. In my “Africa Dreamed” series, I explore emotions—the joyful release of energy from a Dinka women’s jumping dance in war-torn South [...] I’ve just entered a series of six photographs from my “Mali: The Makings of a Pot” photo story in the environmental portraiture category of the Photo District News (PDN) Faces 2010 competition. One of the awards is the People’s Choice Award for the image with the most votes from the viewing public. Of course, I’m at a [...] "Womanhood," Africa Dreamed Collection: A woman in the village of Diagourou near Tera, Niger wears the traditional silver jewelry of the Fulani people. Diagourou is a 5-km, very sandy motorcycle ride from the town of Tera, where I lived during my third year as a Peace Corps volunteer. I was working with the National [...] I recently returned from Mali, where my friend, Melanie, and I had the opportunity to visit the pottery village of Kalabougou, a 45-minute motorized canoe ride down the Niger River from Segou. Click here to see the complete photo story, Mali: The Makings of a Pot. To download a pdf on buying fine art photography, [...] Transitions Abroad has published another one of my photo stories, this one of my late 2008 trip par hasard through Dakar, Senegal, which ended up being my best trip in 10 years! I felt like I was back in Peace Corps again. The story goes like this: During recent travels to Guinea, I experienced [...] Transitions Abroad has just published my photo story from my summer trip to Tunisia. This is the second story of mine that they’ve published. Tunisia. Before the five days I spent wandering this North African country, I envisioned Tunisia as a land of sun, sea, and sand. But after actually experiencing the hectic, bustling Medinas, ancient fortresses, [...] Ganvie, Benin, with some 3,000 stilted buildings and a population of 20,000-30,000 people, may be the largest "lake vllage" in Africa. In Ganvie, the population lives exclusively from fishing, building houses on stilts in and next to Lake Nokoue. Because the Dan-Homey religion prohibited attacks on communities living in the water, the village of [...] |
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