India, Day 8: Prepping for Graduation
Today is always a huge day for us. We usually don’t do anything but build the slide shows all day and that is more than enough to keep us busy. Last night however, some of the Aga Khan staff...
India, Day 7: To Write With Light
By WENDY WALSH Thursday began with students who seemed revived from an extra hour of sleep. You learn pretty early on in this workshop game that bus naps and frequent tea and snack breaks make for happy, productive teenage photographers!...
India 2015, Day 6: Our First Location, The Qutb Shahi Tombs
The day started like they all do, with us gathered in the classroom, in the dark, looking at all of the brilliant images these guys shot yesterday. Their exposures are coming into line, they are more comfortable with their...
India 2015, Day 5: Second Day of Class
After today, we have the most taxing of the week behind us. We had our second long day in the classroom and this time we solidified our understanding of exposure and then worked on, composition, blur, and depth of...
India 2015, Day 4: The First Day of Class
Fred begins every class with a talk about photography as our ability to write with light. But like writing with pen or pencil, it’s not the “writing” that is important but what the author or photographer is trying to...
India 2015, Day 3: The Calm before the Storm
Today we suffered a couple of unusual luxuries for our team. Firstly, with the progress we’ve made over the last couple days, largely a function of months of hard work by Fred and our local coordinators, we were...
India 2015, Day 2: We Found Thomas
Great news! Today Thomas arrived and so did Amy’s bags; both had long circuitous routes to Hyderabad. Thomas started in Santa Fe and traveled via Albuquerque, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Dhaka, Kathmandu and Delhi before arriving in Hyderabad. ...
India 2015, Day 1: Arrive and Prep
Here we are again at the beginning of another workshop. Days have passed and thousands of miles have been traveled, and (most) of the preamble have arrived in Hyderabad, India for this episode. As of this morning, we...
Kyrgyzstan 2015, Day 7: The Final Show
We’re on the plane, reflecting on another great couple of workshops, all the things that we’ve done and the progress the students have made. It’s always amazing how far the students can come in a few days and it’s...
Kyrgyzstan 2015, Day 6: Reflecting on the week
Well it’s the end of the week, another workshop basically in the bag, and today we sat down to do the final edit and make the slideshows for the graduation. Not a ton of excitement to report for today...