An offering from the wanderers

My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

Antarctica | Wednesday, July 3, 2013 | 5 photos

To create something that moves the heart we need to do more than take photographs, we need to make them. We can use the limitations governed by the camera to our advantage; by removing all but the most essential details of our world we can draw attention to the moments that no-one else can see.

It is my dream to craft a life in the intersection between documentary image making and education. I work with primary school students in Australia, facilitating creative learning through visual storytelling projects. This collaboration encourages the students and I to explore and question our unique roles as global citizens through photography and film. I create short educational films and initiate self-funded photographic projects in pursuit of becoming a lifelong questioner and storyteller.

The creative learning opportunities through this scholarship would not only enable me to develop into a more compassionate and effective visual communicator, but allow me to share these discoveries with the students with whom I am privileged to help along their individual storytelling journeys. After all, visual storytelling will save the world, right after Rock 'N' Roll does!