The World in Focus Blog
Create leaders, that’s what they do. After all, leaders aren’t born–they’re made. That’s according to Development Associates International, who has made it their mission to do away with the “big man” top-down leadership style (thank God) and train up a multitude of humble leaders. I like that approach. Here is some of their work and the people they touch in the regions of Guwahati and Shillong, India.
The summer before last I spent some time at a sports camp on the shores of Lake Langano in Ethiopia. The assignment was to do a story on this blind girl from the local community, above, but I had a wonderful time just observing all that was happening at the camp. I also got to know the director and his family a bit and caught a ride out on the lake for some afternoon swimming. Ethiopia has really grown on me over the years, and although I still have little appetite for injera, I do love the coffee, the people, and the natural beauty. I’ll be back with another client in May–and can’t wait.
Much has been said about refugees coming from Syria and other places to the Greek Islands. I won’t add to the debate except to say this: if I were a refugee I’d sure want to have some help along the way, not people telling me to go back to the war zone I had just come from. Maybe we could all try putting ourselves in these people’s shoes. Maybe these image I took on the islands of Kos, Chios and Samos with Medical Teams International will help you do just that.
Tonight is the first game of the 2015-16 Colorado College Tiger Hockey season. I’m psyched to get to shoot some games again this year. Here is a trip down memory lane from the last few seasons…
The Syrian refugee crisis has been in the news in a big way the last week or two. I’m grateful for that! The plight of the refugee is unbelievably hard…and I’ve seen many of these folks up close and spent time in their humble camps and homes. But there are refugees all over the world…and they are equally deserving of our time and attention. One of my clients, World Relief, has been working with resettling refugees here in the states (and caring for them overseas) for a LONG time.
I wanted to post a series of photos of one of the successes I’ve seen from World Relief (out of many) from a shoot I was on earlier this year to Mozambique, a country that has known its share of war and conflict over the last few decades itself.
