akwaaba https://journals.worldnomads.com/mdocampo/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:51:19 GMT World Nomads Adventures I grew up in Weehawken, New Jersey. I took a darkroom photography class in high school and was hooked. There is nothing more magical than watching a blank sheet of paper transform into a photo you, yourself took. Now, I am a very poor college student studying at Tisch School of the Arts of NYU, with the hopes to become a documentary filmmaker. Still photography is still a huge passion of mine – I don’t leave home without my hand-me-down Canon 7D. (Thanks Aunt Michele!) I hope to translate my photography skills into becoming a cinematographer, traveling around the universe with a camera. Currently I’m living in Accra, Ghana where I’m studying, making a documentary about an e-waste dump called Agbogbloshie, and working with an orphanage called City of Refuge, that houses trafficked children from the Volta Region. I recently took a trip to Egypt and traveled around Cairo, Luxor, Alexandria, and camped out in the Sahara Desert with a friendly Bedouin guide. Needless to say, life is a lot different here than in New Jersey, and being able to document it through photography has kept me sane. I find it hard to write about my experiences, but luckily the sound of my shutter opening and closing can speak for me. https://journals.worldnomads.com/mdocampo/photos/31283/Ghana/My-Photo-scholarship-2011-entry Travel Ghana mdocampo https://journals.worldnomads.com/mdocampo/photos/31283/Ghana/My-Photo-scholarship-2011-entry#comments https://journals.worldnomads.com/mdocampo/photos/31283/Ghana/My-Photo-scholarship-2011-entry Sun, 6 Nov 2011 02:28:24 GMT 0 sights from Ghana, Togo, and Egypt https://journals.worldnomads.com/mdocampo/photos/31026/Ghana/journey-through-africa Travel Ghana mdocampo https://journals.worldnomads.com/mdocampo/photos/31026/Ghana/journey-through-africa#comments https://journals.worldnomads.com/mdocampo/photos/31026/Ghana/journey-through-africa Wed, 2 Nov 2011 06:55:00 GMT 0