The (almost) Many Faces of China's Environment and Growth

My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

China | Tuesday, November 27, 2012 | 5 photos

When my Mom taught me how to make a pinhole camera, I thought it was cool. But then I went and played with my legos more. Photography hasn’t always been something I love, but stories have been. And every story needs-deserves-a picture.

At university, I studied economics and read endless studies: from worms and education in Kenya to the Muriel boat lift and immigration in Miami. (Almost) every paper was peer-reviewed and well researched; I learned and memorized the facts and relationships. But at their core, they told a story about people and their place. Both of which I was left to visualize on my own (most likely with great distortions), and neither of which I felt a true connection to without seeing them and their world.

I am applying to this scholarship because I need to picture every place and person I read or hear about. Written stories become all the more powerful if a visual story brings person and place to a picture. I love photography because the world needs less adjectives and more pictures- but oh do I have questions!

About me: I graduated univ., taught in Vietnam for a year and am now on a bike tour of Myanmar before I relocate to India, taking pictures all the way!