My Scholarship entry - A strong hearted community battling hypertension
Kenya | Thursday, November 20, 2014 | 5 photos
I went to Nairobi Kenya originally to try to create a social enterprise to help alleviate cardiovascular diseases in the region. I visited clinics, and community support groups in the Korogocho Slum. I met with researchers, community health workers, patients, and others to learn more about the problem and how we could help. Yet, I learned far more than I expected. There were so many beautiful people who had such rich stories that I tried as best as I could to document what I was discovering. My photographs were my best mementos. I wish I captured more of their spirit.
Photography for me has always been a way to preserve priceless moments, capture immense beauty, or reveal parts of society that lay hidden to the everyman. On this particular trip, I learned how though I was photographing people with cardiovascular disease, the lens captures their strength, and I wished I knew how to better convey what I saw.
When I learned of this scholarship, I saw it as a chance to better myself as a photojournalist so I could better translate my experiences to images that will allow viewers to vicariously experience what I was experiencing. I realised that if I could capture a moment perfectly, others could try to live in that moment as well.
To learn in a place such as Peru, where I can learn how to capture images of virgin rainforests and rare biodiversity that only a few have traversed and encountered as well as document the progress of WWF Peru, and bring awareness to the good they have done, would be a privilege to be a catalyst of change and good.
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