Maputo 2019 – Tech Day
Can you moonwalk? No? Do you fish? Do you like math? Do you play boardgames? Do you write poetry? Our Mozambican students learned a little bit about each other today before the real work started by participating in...
Can you moonwalk? No? Do you fish? Do you like math? Do you play boardgames? Do you write poetry? Our Mozambican students learned a little bit about each other today before the real work started by participating in...
This one will be brief because we are going to get straight into wraping things up for the workshop and (hopefully) get to bed to get some sleep before our flights tomorrow. But graduation was a smash hit. The slideshows looked...
There are those days when, in a moment of lucidity you realize that you’re standing at the end of the day and you haven’t eaten since breakfast. Yep, it’s Friday. Today was our long march. The day after our final...
Our last day of photography on location and we got to visit two fantastic places. It was well into many of the instructors professional careers that we first had an opportunity to photograph on the factory floor. These guys are...
Today we got to the real stuff. The last few days of instruction have been preparing us for today and the next couple: now we begin photographing our stories. After our morning critique and exercise (shooting portraits of one...
We’ve spent two days inside the museum, mostly in the classroom, learning about aperture, shutter speed, ISO, motion blur, computer workflow, Lightroom, depth of field….you see where I’m going. After a couple days of this, we really need...
We spent all of yesterday setting up and rehearsing for the big day today! The Commons Hall at AKAM is a large, beautifully designed, extremely high-ceilinged building which is used as a dining hall and venue for special events. ...
There’s no looking back! Today was the first shooting day and the start of tremendous growth for the students. We started the day off with an introductory lesson from Wendy and Sarah. They explained what a camera is capable...
The First Day of School! Today we met the students and immediately jumped right into things with an introductory session in the morning and our tech session in the afternoon. We’ve started a new tradition of beginning these workshops...
Graduation day today was a smash hit! The format followed our template, we hung an exhibition of the students work, we made a bunch of slideshows, and we put out a bunch of invitations for the event. And the...