last year was such a great year for me. I was able to take the first step in making my vision of Through Their Eyes come to pass. I have not posted here for some time now but not due to a lack of things happening. So much is going on and I will be sharing it all on a regular basis in 2008.
We are in the process of a few fund raising activities to get to the next step of the project. This is where we will be taking 4 or 5 professional photographers to Ethiopia to train some young adults from the Borana village I found last August to be photo journalists. I am so excited for this part but this will cost a total of about $30,000. Once we have this we will be off to Africa with the potential of helping thousands of Africans in the Borana tribe overcome AIDS and Malaria. How cool will that be. We would be able to help their quality of living without changing their culture. That would be our goal.
We are in the process of organizing our images from last August into two books that we will use to promote our project and to use as fund raising tools.
We are also involved now in the ground breaking stages of another related project where we will be going to document catastrophic natural disasters to tell the story of the brave and bold people that are the first responders and those that help to rebuild the lives of those effected by tragidy. We will see how this goes. If all goes well we will get in there and teach young adults to shoot and document the rebuilding themselves.
Well like I said there is soooooo much going on and this is all in my spare time to I will keep posting often but as time allows.
Thanks for checking back.