A Final Bow For The Tajikistan Workshop
After the long night, our 6:30 AM wake-up call made for an early morning. The normal routine…wake, shower, breakfast with the team, then jump in the car at 8 AM to head over to the Lycee for our last...
Day Four: Finishing Things Off
What can we tell you about today…we began the day on schedule, with the car picking us up at 8:30am to head back over to the school. Today was presentation day, which means that Fred, Wendy, Tony, and Mike...
Day Three: Dentists and Power Plants
For each of our workshops, we partner with a local NGO to help plan things on the ground. By working with a local organization, we have the infrastructure in place to help us make the workshop happen and who...
Day Two: Capturing Organized Chaos
Take forty or so adorable little gremlins (aged 3-5), put them in a room filled with books, building blocks, paint, crayons and musical instruments, and set a handful of incredibly talented teachers to shape their young minds…and you get...
Day One: An Introduction to Storytelling
(For those who read my post from yesterday: of course, as soon as we arrived, we found out that two of the teachers who had joined us in the previous night’s festivities were going to be with us for...
Planning and the Party
At our hotel, the Serena Khorog, we had breakfast, met with our NGO coordinator, and generally nursed our wounds from the drive from Dushanbe. Nakat and Haidar, the CEO and Program Coordinator for the Aga Khan Foundation (our NGO...
Welcome to Tajikistan
Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Nashville and Rochester. Our crew traveled halfway around the northern hemisphere this time to meet in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan. We arrived at 4 a.m. and had time for a 1.5 hour nap at...
On the Road to the Workshop
We made it safely to Tajikistan and are busy preparing to commence the workshop in Khorog tomorrow! We took this photo while traveling along the Pamir Highway from Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan where we landed a few days...
On To Tajikistan
Dear Friends, I am extremely pleased to announce my next photography workshop in Tajikistan, this time in association with the Aga Khan Foundation. Our team is leaving on October 7, and the workshop will run from October 12 through...