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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” [...] Apri 2010 Wallpaper: "Breakfast in Bed." A small child in a village in southwestern Niger eats "pot and sauce" with her hand in the traditional African manner. She sits atop a handmade millet stalk bed inside a mud hut. I read a great interview by Heber Vega of Marco Ryan and the Focus for Humanity Foundation. In [...] 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, [...] I’m back on the road today, so you might not hear from me for a few weeks, though I’ll try to write if I have time. It was touch and go there for a while. Wasn’t sure I’d make it out today, what with more snowstorms in DC and my passport stuck at [...] 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 [...] 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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