In 2009, construction began on a teahouse across the boulevard from the newly opened Ismaili Centre. According to a tour guide from the teahouse, over the course of the 5 years of construction, more than 4,000 traditional Tajik craftsmen,...
This morning began, as did our last ADV workshop, with a warm reunion. Our students from the October seminar in Khorog had arrived in Dushanbe in the evening yesterday and this morning we were all smiles. At 9 o’clock...
At 3:45am on June 13, 2015 we put wheels down in Dushanbe, Tajikistan…and the new airport is fantastic! We are back in Dushanbe for a short week to host an advanced class for the students of last October’s beginner...
This morning we had our graduation ceremony, and it went tremendously! First off, the four advanced students ran the technical aspects of the show completely on their own… I was there to supervise (a role I took quite a...
Today was an interesting day for the instructors. (The last day before the ceremony always is!) This morning we all went over to the classroom for our last critique. The images from the medicine story yesterday were amazing, and...
This morning we started nice and early. At 8:30, we met in the classroom and got into things right away! We had a local doctor come in during our morning class and talk about both traditional medicine and modern...
This morning, Wendy gave a presentation on her photo essay on eye surgeons in Nepal, and then we had a guest speaker come in to tell us about the programs put on by the Bhutan Nun’s Foundation. She and...
What started out as a normal day quickly turned into a full day of photography projects. In fact, today was chaos… our groups where all over Thimphu on assignment. (If you’re viewing this in an email, click here to...
Today was another successful day. As always, we looked through the students’ work during our evening critique, and we all felt pretty confident that a good deal of yesterday’s work would end up in each student’s “best of the...
Our beginner’s class actually started the night of the advanced class graduations. Some of these new students had traveled two days from the eastern part of Bhutan to take part in our class! By the afternoon, everyone had arrived....