
Here is more work by participants from the Ladakh Lumen Dei workshop. Today’s works is by Martin & Alik Sojka. The Martins are from Slovakia, and are very talented photographers. (Martin also brews a mean bottle of Hruškovica. A home brew made of peaches that will knock your socks off! It is good for what [...]
Oct 29, 2010 | Categories: Blog, Lumen Dei, Multimedia, News, Photographers, Photography, Travel, Workshop | Tags: Hruškovica, landscape photographer, Lumen Dei, Martin Sojka, Multimedia, Slovakia, Soundslide, Workshop | 3 Comments »

While in Ladakh, I lead a short spur-of-the-moment workshop on Soundslide Plus and the basic concepts of a photo essay. We had several participants express their interest in trying their hand at it. I told each of them, if they got it to me I would gladly post their work for others to see. Here [...]
Oct 21, 2010 | Categories: Blog, India, Lumen Dei, Multimedia, Workshop | Tags: Ladakh, Lamayuru, Leh, Lumen Dei, photo essay, Sound Slide Plus, Yves Perreault | 2 Comments »

You may have noticed I haven’t posted much lately. I think it’s because I’ve been very introspective. I’ve been thinking a lot about life these days. I haven’t been feeling well. I’ve been to the doctor several times, without much help. During this same time I found out that a very close friend back in [...]
Oct 19, 2010 | Categories: Blog, Opinion | Tags: C.S. Lewis, foucusforhumanity.org, humanitarian photographer, NGO photographer, Non-profit organization, photophilanthropy.org, Radio Lab, Sheldon Vanauken | 8 Comments »

My intent in this post is to foster peace and understanding. This post today expresses the views of one man, who is in the minority in his town. He is a Muslim man named Faisal, and he is a minority in Buddhist Ladakh. Many of my readers know that I am a member of a [...]
Oct 08, 2010 | Categories: Blog, India, Kashmir, Multimedia, Photography, Travel | Tags: ethnocentrism, faith, IGVP, International Guild of Visual Peacemakers, Ladakh, Leh, Muslim, Peacemakers, prejudice, Religion and Spirituality | 21 Comments »

I’ve been preparing for a set of interviews over the last few weeks. The interviews are with prominent photojournalist. In preparing questions for them I keep coming across the same thought, “Where is photojournalism headed?” I know that this is a broad question and one that isn’t easy to answer. But there are certainly trends [...]
Oct 06, 2010 | Categories: Blog, Opinion, Photography | Tags: Brian Storm, David DuChemin, Joe McNally, journalism, MediaSorm, photojournalism, Renaissance, trends, video | 16 Comments »