Sarah's snaps https://journals.worldnomads.com/sarahwarwick/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:12:22 GMT World Nomads Adventures Like George Orwell said of good writing, a good photograph should be like a window pane. It should frame and contextualise its subject. Good photography needs no hyperbole, no colour saturation, no photoshop - it simply tells a story. My story is taken from the village of Sapa in the far north of Thailand, where I travelled last year. The women there struck me - from young girls selling bracelets by the side of trekking tracks, to old toothless crones smoking pipes over bowls of night-market noodles - as having a particular strength and beauty, perhaps stemming from - and mirrored in - the dramatic, paddy-stepped landscapes that they live in. They are the ones who do the work, leading the tourist treks and selling their homemade wares. In terms of why I deserve to win the internship, I can only say that I would like to learn to do women like these justice when I take their picture in the future. I would dearly like my photography to be like Orwell's window pane - to simply and honestly frame the story of people, places and things without the distraction of my less-than-brilliant technical abilities. In nine months last year, I took 8,000 photographs and I was rarely happy with a single one. I am thirsty to learn! https://journals.worldnomads.com/sarahwarwick/photos/25445/Worldwide/My-Photo-scholarship-2010-entry Travel Worldwide sarahwarwick https://journals.worldnomads.com/sarahwarwick/photos/25445/Worldwide/My-Photo-scholarship-2010-entry#comments https://journals.worldnomads.com/sarahwarwick/photos/25445/Worldwide/My-Photo-scholarship-2010-entry Sat, 16 Oct 2010 10:51:28 GMT 0