(always) Learning to See ...

December 15 2009

LINK/INSPIRATION WOW here a site to bookmark and revisit. Powerful imagery & interesting work by Jehad Nga.

Jehad Nga was born in Smith Center, Kansas.

While attending UCLA in 2002 Jehad began taking photos after discovering the Natasha Merritt book The Digital Diaries. Between 2001-2002 he spent months traveling through the Middle East taking medical volunteering positions in Gaza and documenting the trips.Wanting to continue working as a medical volunteer Jehad trained to become an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) in 2002 while interning at Magnum Photos. In Jan 2003 Jehad traveled to Iraq with Writer Kareem Fahim and Illustrator Brian Wilcox to cover the US lead invasion. In the summer of 2003 Jehad began working in Africa with his first trip to Liberia.

Since 2004 Jehad has been based in East Africa.

Another great link via the travel photographer blog that I keep wanting to visit and revisit

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A photography blog by Robert van Koesveld around learning to see as a photographer: with my own images and process as well as whatever I think inspires, informs, extends or challenges in the struggle to learn to see. There are two supplementary blogs; LTS2 for photography and LTS3 for other Art. The links are at the top above this. They are a place to display others work that I find inspirational and that I want to refer back to. Comments are welcome use 'click to comment' or email me here:

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