tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356289092011-08-01T00:27:01.653-07:00Project: Ugandac. nemaziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18203108700418425484noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35628909.post-61636420227423609572009-01-28T12:20:00.001-08:002009-01-28T12:20:08.216-08:00testtest test testwho is cnemazie.anne?Cherylnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35628909.post-1164255319878777682006-11-22T17:57:00.000-08:002006-11-23T21:08:15.620-08:00"Today, I danced with Pygmies." Journal entry, 31 Oct 06. Last New Year's Eve, Dave and I talked about what we thought the coming year might hold. That was one experience I definitely did not see coming. If the people of Rakai are poor, then the pygmy villages I visited are utterly destitute. I have never seen such squalor up close. Alone in one of their huts, I could hear the rats. Large ones Cherylnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35628909.post-1163222827560771172006-11-10T20:58:00.000-08:002006-11-11T00:59:22.866-08:00The silence was deafening that first morning in Kyotera. Sitting in one long row on the stoop, my family and I sized-up each other with covert glances. Grateful for my camera, I hid behind it waiting for them to do something, anything. Kyotera is one of many small villages in Rakai. Mud huts nestled in a lush setting. Vibrant greens, the heady scent of rich soil, relative quiet pierced every so Cherylnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35628909.post-1162930666218144922006-11-07T10:30:00.000-08:002006-11-07T12:25:36.836-08:00Remote locations, power outages, and a frenzy of final editing has kept me from posting updates on my Uganda experience. I'm now in Dubai, art directing again, until I leave for the US on the 13th. During my internet-less times, however, I have been writing down events, thoughts, impressions. So now, I will continue telling about my experience from where I left off. Because it would make this oneCherylnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35628909.post-1161838355619107122006-10-25T21:36:00.001-07:002006-10-25T21:52:35.620-07:00We're leaving for Rakai, an area in southern Uganda, very shortly. There we're each assigned a family to follow around for a few days. They live in dwellings somewhat like this one (w/o the front yard, I understand). Most of the group will be returning Sunday.At this point, I may be traveling on to refugee camps near the Rwanda/Congo border to shoot with a colleague here for Right to Play, an Cherylnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35628909.post-1161752569791591472006-10-24T21:14:00.000-07:002006-10-24T22:02:49.846-07:00The ugly American is alive and well.Tuesday things began to happen. I finally caught up with a group called the Human Rights Network-Uganda (HURINET_U), an umbrella NGO for human rights groups of various concerns. One of their groups works with the Batwa Pygmies and is in need of some photography and video to make their plight known to the world.I went to the meeting with a video workshop Cherylnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35628909.post-1161671108617973262006-10-23T21:41:00.001-07:002006-10-24T01:07:48.626-07:00I leaned into the boda-boda driver as close as I could without giving the wrong impression. It was much warmer that way, and he was certainly keeping me drier. A week ago, I never quite pictured myself careening around potholes on suburban Africa's dirt roads on the back of a mini bike, in the rain, without a jacket. Somehow, I know that's not going to be the last not-previously-pictured Cherylnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35628909.post-1161320044389109022006-10-19T16:10:00.000-07:002006-10-19T22:19:31.303-07:00Photos: Top to Bottom: 1. Just before leaving, with Melissa and Zach. 2. Even the cloud formations over Africa were amazing. 3 & 4. My room!Greetings from Kampala! I landed around 9:15 tonight, so I haven’t seen much yet. The drive from Entebbe to K. was along a very nice road with sporadic shops, markets, and eateries lining it. It seemed people were walking or bicycling everywhere. My room is Cherylnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35628909.post-1160887806603640682006-10-14T21:14:00.000-07:002006-10-19T15:44:12.853-07:00Next week, I will be in Kampala, mingling with "real" photographers all meeting for the first time. Well, some of them anyway. I will already know one of the best photographers there: an amazing architectural photographer whom I work with in the states quite often, a mentor in travel photography, and a great friend... Dan Ham. ( http://www.danhamphotography.com )Last year in one of many Cherylnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35628909.post-1160177877561063632006-10-06T16:36:00.000-07:002006-10-13T04:53:01.786-07:00Five days and counting until I board an Emirates airplane headed to Uganda.Maine Photographic Workshops offers a program there focusing on working with NGOs (non-government aid organizations), specifically developing story ideas and capturing images that will help these groups share their missions with the world. So, early on 18 October I will be on my way for the 2-3 week workshop. A layover in Cherylnoreply@blogger.com10