So I am really bad about being a photographer of my own life and rarely take my camera places here at home anymore. But not anymore! Lindsey helped me realize I need to start again. So here are some photos from a long, overdue, weekend in Santa Cruz and Carmel.

This month Sacramento Magazine did a 5 page double-truck spread on some of my work and my approach to photojournalism. I think it’s great they wanted to talk about Africa, considering the mag doesn’t really talk about international issues very often; the following article is on how to get the best jeans.
Again, it’s a great opportunity [...]

After a few weekends of a pain-staking process of trying to scan thousands of slide images, my dad decided to give up and send over 10,000 slides through some service that ships all your childhood memories in dozens of boxes to India. 1 month later he received the boxes of slides back with 5 DVD’s [...]

I had another opportunity to share at William Jessup Universityand hang out with a super cool group of students from the Public Policy department. They had some really meaningful questions about Africa and the existing politics involved in making what the modern African governments look like.
These guys are a sharp group and I am confident [...]

After months of preperation, Hope Walks was tremendous. The rain held off literaly until we wrapped up with a final prayer of the day. With over 760 registered walkers and over $45,000 raised for orphans and vulnerable children in DR Congo, the day did not come to a close. Instead, that day was just the beginning for [...]

I recently came across this great blog, The Ongoing Adventures of ASBO Jesus. They are daily cartoons, from a pastor, I think from the U.K., which explains why the wording has that Brit twist to it. Half of them go right over my head, but the ones I think I get are really challenging. Great! [...]

One of my long-time favorite, and greatly influential, war photographers Alexandra Boulat,  died at the beginning of the month at such an early age. Bringing a woman’s perspective to the Middle East, in terms of a photojournalist, was incredibly insightfull.
To get an idea of some of the rare glimps that she captured check out this [...]

I had the opportunity to speak at William Jessup University and share some of my passions involving raising awareness of issues in Africa and photojournalism in general.
I had a really good time talking with both students and faculty and both had great questions.
To be honest, this has got to be one of my favorite speaking [...]