Markus, I’ve really been enjoying this African work. It’s all the more impressive that you are managing to do this around the edges of a full time job in a very foreign environment. Makes me wonder what might result if you had, say, one week in Livingstone with no responsibility except to make pictures.
Carl, I was considering a similar idea after returning (I was there only unless May 17). While the general setting in Livingstone is really friendly, I was asked several times to keep the camera in the bag as well as not to walk in certain areas – both wild elephants roaming the city as plain mugging could cause problems. Next time there will also be a small camera in the bag. Being embedded in a cooperation with local colleagues helped a lot to understand the situation on the ground. I guess doing more and dedicated photography would require a classical “fixer” to reach certain places and explain my intention in adequate words, a role that could be filled in by one of the taxi drivers we contracted during our last stay. The good thing of my working stays in Sambia is that it’s not a one-shot thing but there are two more stints to follow, which I plan to fully use for photography, too.
Markus, I’ve really been enjoying this African work. It’s all the more impressive that you are managing to do this around the edges of a full time job in a very foreign environment. Makes me wonder what might result if you had, say, one week in Livingstone with no responsibility except to make pictures.
Carl, I was considering a similar idea after returning (I was there only unless May 17). While the general setting in Livingstone is really friendly, I was asked several times to keep the camera in the bag as well as not to walk in certain areas – both wild elephants roaming the city as plain mugging could cause problems. Next time there will also be a small camera in the bag.
Being embedded in a cooperation with local colleagues helped a lot to understand the situation on the ground. I guess doing more and dedicated photography would require a classical “fixer” to reach certain places and explain my intention in adequate words, a role that could be filled in by one of the taxi drivers we contracted during our last stay.
The good thing of my working stays in Sambia is that it’s not a one-shot thing but there are two more stints to follow, which I plan to fully use for photography, too.