Thaipusam Workshop: The Fruit of Hard Labour
The workshop is officially over. As with most workshops, we took time to view each student’s completed projects. Every one of our students made memorable presentations. The focus of the week was story telling and the unique aspect of this workshop was that we were able to embed our workshop participants into local families. Below [...]
Model Shoot: Take 2
With Thaipusam over, today we took the students out for a lesson in working with a model. I had the pleasure of working with Shri (above) and Cindy. The challenge on model shoots in workshops is finding both easily accessible locations to work in and locations that fit the model’s persona. The old Peranakan Chinese [...]
Thaipusam: A Day of Edits
This is the 5th day of the Thaipusam workshop. Today students spent most of the day learning how to cull out the bad photographs from the good and editing their stories down. These are some of my keepers from the past two days.
The Workshop: Thaipusam
This is a catch up post for me. I have been so busy with this workshop I have had so little time to even sleep, let a lone post here. I am loving the excitement and the creativity our workshop participants are bringing to this workshop. Gavin and I went all out to find [...]
Empty Nets
I am working on a project for a NGO that is focusing on the peoples of Africa and Asia’s coastal waters. In short, we are looking at issues of over fishing, climate change and natural disasters like the Acheh tsunami and how these factors effect the livelihood of the coastal people. This is from today’s [...]
Is Fear Your Art Director?
This will be a short post. It’s really just a reminder to take advantage of the moment. This morning I went to Georgetown (Penang, Malaysia) scouting out some locations for an upcoming photo walk. As I was walking through Little India, I stopped and went inside a Hindu temple. These temples have always been inviting [...]
2012 Workshop Schedule
I’ve received several e-mails asking about next year’s workshop schedule. Realizing that my workshop page was not as easy to access as I had imagined (I changed the links location in the menu bar and have now made it more prominent.) I thought I would also highlight the current list of workshops I have running [...]
Multimedia: Durian, The Scent of a King
I am convinced that the durian is a misunderstood fruit. As you will learn from watching this slideshow that it is known for its pungent odor and it’s rather mushy texture. I have also learned that it is rather subjective whether it is pungent in it’s smell or just “heavily scented” or if the texture [...]
Wallpaper: February ’11 – Happy Chinese New Year!
Chinese New Year is all about prosperity, blessing, luck, lanterns and red! Everything around here is red. Red banners, red signs, red dresses, red lanterns and more red lanterns. There are so many red lanterns when I close my eyes I see red dots! The town is completely decked out in red lanterns. So here [...]
Color and Beauty
Today is a crazy day for me. I have so much going on today that I have not even able to go to the last part of Thaipusam. I still hold out hope that I’ll be able to make it later. But other things are demanding my attention. In fact, I won’t even be able [...]
Thaipusam ’11, Day 2
Thanks for all the positive feedback yesterday. Thaipusam is a festival, a party, as well as a pilgrimage by foot. To me, today seemed to be about movement. As photographers human beings we get caught in patterns, ruts and favorites all the time. I am no different. But, this doesn’t have to be a bad [...]
Thaipusam 2011 Day 1
You might remember a couple years back I posted images from the Hindu celebration of Thaipusam that takes place here in Penang. Last year I was in Iraq and not able to cover it. But this year I am home with camera in hand. To get the full story on Thaipusam watch and read THIS [...]
I shoot for mostly NGOs and nonprofits. I photograph images of the unknown, the forgotten and the helpless. These are often the stories that most people overlook. 
