Announcing that my work will be on display at Kejara’s Bridge in Lake Leelanau through the month of April.
The show is loosely titled “Food, Games and Celebrations” The three universals. Whether it is for a bowl of noodles in China, a traditional dance in Rwanda or a gathering of the community for a movie under the stars in Michigan, we live for the moments that bring us together. My favorite photography focuses on these moments. The images on display represent some of what I’ve been blessed to experience.
Kejara’s bridge is located at 202 West Main Street, Lake Leelanau, MI 49653 Phone: 231.256.7720
For 2 weeks (Feb. 12th-Feb. 25th) I will be at, or in transit to/from, the Source of the Nile in Rwanda’s Nyungwe Forest. I’m traveling with a group of North American Fair Trade coffee roasters/importers from Cooperative Coffees as they visit four emerging producer cooperatives. Rwandan coffee isn’t widely known, but has always had complex, distinct, high quality beans. Coffee is a critical key for the small country’s economic and social recovery from turmoil of 1990’s. Emerging producer cooperatives selling on the Fair Trade coffee market, have been an important element to Rwanda’s 5% growth since 2001. The story of reconciliation is an additional incentive for North American and European coffee importers.
Please check back here for reports from the field and future media presentations.
Resources of note concerning Rwanda:
- PBS’s Wide-Angle: Changing Role of Women in Rwandan society
- Out of Madness, A Matriarchy By Kimberlee Acquaro in Mother Jones.
- Oxfam’s Rwanda Projects. Also see their introduction to the 1994 Genocide
- Coffee, Fairtrade & Rwanda- Intro of Voluntary Service Overseas’ Project
- Country Profile on the BBC: Rwanda
- The New Times ~ Rwanda’s English newspaper
- Radio of Rwanda
Photo Essays:
- Through the Eyes of Children-The Rwandan Project
- Children of Rwanda’s Genocide by Vanessa Vick
- Birth & Death in Rwanda by James Nachtwey
- Rwanda: 10 Years Later (graphic images)
Miscellaneous:
- Rwandan websites Directory
- Rwanda Cinema Center
- Rwanda Film Festival
- Learn to speak Kinyarwanda
Earthwork Music’s Daisy May Erlewine, has released a brand new Solo album, Mother Moon. The album insert features images taken by me during the recording in Big Rapids in December 2006.Listen to a sample: May
The album features artists Seth Bernard, Dominic Suchyta, Mike Shimmin, Andrea Moreno-Beals, Drew Howard and many special guests! It was Recorded in November at the Heart Center Studios by Ian Gorman.
