it’s just about time for an adventure…
Ah… the weather has been amazing lately (except for the rain today) and it’s making me fall in love with the Bay Area all over again. But, as much as I love springtime in California, I also love a good adventure, and I just couldn’t resist an amazing opportunity that was recently offered.
In a few weeks, my fiance will start work in Tanzania as a Program Officer in the East Africa region for PREDICT, a project working to develop a global early warning system for emerging diseases that move between wildlife and people. I’m not only excited that he’s managed to get a job that’s right up his alley (that boy is right at home hanging out in the fields and cracking Swahili jokes with the Masaii men he’s working with), but I’m also very happy to have been offered a contract to photograph and document the program. If the logistics work out, I should have some very interesting days ahead of me, following game scouts around Ruaha National Park and the Wildlife Management Areas.
I’m also thrilled to be working on a project of my own with an organization called Neema Crafts, that works to provide handicrafts training and employment for deaf and physically disabled people in Iringa, the town that will be our home base while in Tanzania. Photography is such a huge part of my life and has become a way to express how I see the world, so I’m looking forward to sharing a little bit of what I’ve learned. I’m in the process of purchasing cameras and materials for a small photography workshop that I will be running for some of the Neema artisans, and I can’t wait to share some of their photographs and stories with you in the coming months.
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