Travel & Humanitarian Photos
There are times when we face “low light” conditions and there are times when we face the challenge of “Err, excuse me, who turned the lights off?”. On this occasion, at the wonderful Fresh and Green Academy in Addis Ababa, these three girls were sitting in a dark corner of a classroom, lit by the [...]
Two things guaranteed to make me happy: 1. The company of friends 2. Great light Yesterday’s visit to the Worldwide Orphans Academy in Addis Ababa yielded both – in spades. I met up again with the spirited kids at the WWO, they make friends faster than you can say “My name is…”. At around 5:30pm [...]
Today has been one of mixed emotions. The exuberance, energy and enthusiasm of the children we have met has left me smiling broadly and it’s humbling to spend time with kids who don’t have much in a material sense yet who’s default state seems to be excited, grinning, cheeky, cheerfulness. We spent time at schools [...]
Wayan is over sixty-five years of age and lives on the Indonesian island of Bali. Nobody is entirely sure of his exact age, even Wayan himself is vague about it. Counting birthdays obviously hasn’t been a priority for him. He’s worked all his life in a rural community and has raised a family. In recent [...]
The kids from this school in Siem Reap, Cambodia and I had great fun turning the LCD screen of a Canon EOS camera into a mini movie screen. They really couldn’t get enough of seeing and hearing themselves and, once they’d got the hang of it, went about filling up a 16Gb memory card with [...]
When I speak to people who live in China they often talk about the balancing act that the country is facing – trying to protect the traditional whilst allowing room for the modern. That juxtaposition is very evident in the ancient – and modern – city of Kunming, in Yunnan. Downtown Kunming has room for [...]
I’ve recently returned from an assignment in Cambodia, working for A Child’s Right. You may remember that I worked for the NGO in Nepal recently and seeing the work that they have done in Siem Reap really reinforced what a wide-spread and worrying problem the availability – or lack – of clean, fresh water is. [...]
How much would someone have to pay you to drink the water on the left? This is the question posed by the NGO “a child’s right” in their Clean Water Challenge. When you consider that the glass on the left is highly likely to contain water bearing some of the contaminants that kill over 3 [...]
Just to confuse you, I’m currently in Nepal but posting pictures from Malaysia. Confuse you! Who am I kidding? My camera is set to local Bangkok time, my laptop still thinks it’s in Kuala Lumpur and my trusty GPS device is telling me that it’s in a village somewhere outside Kathmandu. Fancy synchronising the metadata [...]