Day 3: Finally On Location
It seemed a little weird to me that we would begin our longest day of photography for the week with an hour-long walk at 6AM, but our students were somehow up for it. Yesterday, I got up way too...
Day 2: Getting Adjusted
A soft rain falls in the forest between clear patches in the morning sky, sunlight streaming through cracks in the canopy. It’s quiet this morning, though before 6 AM our students are already out wandering around the grounds of...
Day 1: Getting The Basics Down
Man, our translators got a workout today and there were plenty of hiccups for all of us! The first started several days ago when we discovered that we were not going to be able to get the cameras we...
Our Arrival Into Nicaragua
We loaded into a giant white bus and set out north from Managua toward the mountains, Macizos Peñas Blancas. Multi-storied complexes of malls and food courts shrank into single-story concrete and tin-roofed shops, and then into small wooden kiosks...
An Introduction to the Nicaragua Workshop
This week, our team will be headed to the rainforests of Nicaragua for the next Fredric Roberts Photography Workshop with Save the Children. While our workshop in Bhutan last January was as exotic for me as landing in Shangri-La,...
A Note From A Workshop Parent
Just this past week, a parent of one of our workshop students in Bhutan sent the team this kind note thanking us for our work and time invested there. It’s nice to see how our students are continuing to...
Bhutan Workshop Galleries
Hello everyone! At last, we have posted the videos of our recent photography workshop in Bhutan. Please take a minute and click on the link below to view them. Link to Gallery Page The first video is a selection...
The Graduation Ceremony
Graduation is the climax of any workshop. The students have spent a week living (literally) in a total immersion environment of photography and storytelling. Learning, shooting, testing techniques, making mistakes, achieving successes, editing their work, facing the semi-public scrutiny...
Day 7: Our Group Show and Closing Day
At 4PM, Thomas and I were in the truck with Kelzang on our way to a handicraft market, and it finally hit me that not only is the day over, but that it was Saturday and our workshop in...
Final Days (From Fredric)
As we progressed through the end of the week, it was clear to all of us that this was an unusual group of students with whom we had a special relationship. They seemed to “get” everything, and enthusiastically incorporated...