We visited the local YMCA today – which will be the location for our inaugural ‘Photos Tell Stories : teaching photography – a visual language‘ – at least for the theory part of the course; as we will also be taking our young Gambian students out and about, with their FujiFilm cameras, to photograph whats around them.
We are really looking forward to seeing what the students will produce – once we get started with the main group on the 2nd January, 2014. Albeit a little behind schedule – a combination of ‘GMT’ (Gambia Meantime) and the holiday season. The pace is significantly more laid back here, compared to what we are used to in New York or London. And, although that can have it’s frustrations, it’s also one of the main reasons we keep getting drawn back to this part of the world. Each time, in the first few weeks of arriving – still in our metropolis-living mode of rushing around – it takes time to adjust, before we realize that we’ve spent half our working day hurrying up to wait! Like I said, GMT… thankfully, it’s kicking in, slowly but surely. As it always does.
More updates coming very soon.
The Florios (Helen & Jason)
Photographer and Workshop Producer – ‘Photos Tell Stories‘
PHOTOS TELL STORIES - documentary | filmmaking | photography | people | travel 