From Inside to Out https://journals.worldnomads.com/malikrantz/ Tue, 26 May 2026 00:35:44 GMT World Nomads Adventures As tourists are paraded through an orphanage in Tanzania they take pictures of the children. I can't lift my camera, but I want to. The children have expressionless faces different from any children I have seen before. I don't know any orphans. I don't know anyone who lives in poverty. They shove notes into the tourists' hands asking them to be pen pals and to send money. I can't lift my camera, but I want to. As a journalism student, I have always envied photographers who are able to capture human emotion through a lens. In theory, I would love to be a photojournalist. In practice, I cannot lift my camera to photograph the face of a destitute, orphaned child in a country that is not my own. In my photo journal, I included one picture of a child. It was taken outside a banana farm in a Tanzanian village where my dad passed out cheap pens to all the children. She stared emotionlessly into my camera with the pen in her hand. The pen probably broke within a matter of hours, but I will be able to use her image over and over again for my benefit. I want to win this scholarship because I need to reconcile my guilt associated with taking people's pictures with my desire to document human emotion. I want a diverse portfolio and a challenging career. This set of photos shows that I can capture the awkward movements of giraffes, the shyness of a crab and the beauty of stained glass against a whitewashed building, but I know it lacks human feeling. This scholarship would help me enhance my portfolio, my career aspects and my life as a journalist by teaching me to photograph nature as well as people. https://journals.worldnomads.com/malikrantz/photos/30291/Tanzania/My-Photo-scholarship-2011-entry Travel Tanzania malikrantz https://journals.worldnomads.com/malikrantz/photos/30291/Tanzania/My-Photo-scholarship-2011-entry#comments https://journals.worldnomads.com/malikrantz/photos/30291/Tanzania/My-Photo-scholarship-2011-entry Tue, 4 Oct 2011 14:51:00 GMT 0