Waiting Game - N'Dele https://journals.worldnomads.com/alyona/ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:39:53 GMT World Nomads Adventures Working for the Red Cross I travel a lot. When I started taking photos, my purpose was very straightforward: have a record of numerous people and places I get to see. Very soon, however, I realized that my camera was a powerful tool not just for recording, but for exploring. It helped me notice things I would otherwise have missed, approach people I would have passed by, and look at them in a different, sometimes unexpected, way. It makes me stay alert, pay attention to detail and increases my sensitivity. I think that now my photography is rather selfish. Going to a new place, I know how the place looks like, so I only capture details that seem meaningful to me, often failing to provide the necessary context for them. And this is what I am hoping to learn with this scholarship: how you approach a place when the time you can spend there is limited and your objective is to make people who have never been there feel they had shared this experience. This, I hope, will allow me to practice photography in a way that will give people more than I take from them. By telling their stories, making them and others see the beauty and the ugliness of their everyday existence. https://journals.worldnomads.com/alyona/photos/37808/Central-African-Republic/My-Scholarship-entry-A-place-I-have-visited Travel Central African Republic alyona https://journals.worldnomads.com/alyona/photos/37808/Central-African-Republic/My-Scholarship-entry-A-place-I-have-visited#comments https://journals.worldnomads.com/alyona/photos/37808/Central-African-Republic/My-Scholarship-entry-A-place-I-have-visited Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:10:00 GMT 0