Nelspruit street survivors

The surviving vulnerable souls of Nelspruit

South Africa | Thursday, July 4, 2013 | 4 photos

Making a camera out of a soup box and flash unit out of scrap zinc and broken glass wasn’t just like my other childhood endeavors.

At age of 14 I realized my love of taking pictures,but I wouldn’t afford a camera .I later moved to South Africa, I started shooting with a 2-megapixel phone;with workmates as my customers and it was interesting to learn their languages .I bought a Canon compact camera. I later took family portraits, sunsets and flora for fun which brought me scornful criticism from friends,I never gave up in expressing my creativity.

Thank you to World Nomads for this chance I’ve been longing for. The scholarship will be a much rewarding welcome of skills from Jason at my doorstep into travel photography unlike my struggle of tweaking. I’m willing to explore the Inuit’s place and culture. In my culture there’s an ancient saying that a cold weather summons a dead Inuit, now I want the real experience of Greenland’s climate.

I look forward for a mass empowerment on photography skills in the globe through campaigns and TV. It can be an initiative to ensure the best standards of this art are achieved and popularizing photography as a hobby, a cure for stress,ask me.