Chizi Poa Kama Ndizi

My Scholarship entry - Off the Arborek Jetty

Indonesia | Monday, November 24, 2014 | 3 photos

I've spent the past five years since finishing high school working out exactly what it is I want to do. What it is I have to offer, and now I'm more passionate than ever about photography and conservation. I've studied journalism, I did a year at film school in Denmark and I've travelled. I first entered this competition four years ago. I started with photos from a three month trip in Kenya and Tanzania. Following that trip I was selected for a university funded month long trip with a grass-root program in a village in Maharashtra, in India. That sparked a love affair with that wonderful country and I've been back, camera in hand several times since. Most recently I've spent a lot of time working on studying the impact of tourism on countries in South-East Asia, and Indigenous peoples in Australia and around the world. I've started up a photo project, initially on Instagram three months ago to capture the beauty of cultures and humanity from my travels; @thepeoplesphotoproject . The photos I've submitted, from Raja Ampat in Indonesia detail of the wonderful connection the children have to the sea - a spot that's set to become the next toursit hot spot in just a couple of years.