Pilgrimage Pickpockets
Which do you think is stronger for the situation? I might be biased, b/c I was robbed once (cell phone pick pocketed) and attempted to be robbed three other times while doing my story on the pilgrimage, but I didn’t feel for this guy. Sara was robbed too. This is a roving jail / paddywagon [...]
Bored
You sleep, I shoot you. The only surefire way to not have pictures with people staring directly in to the camera and saying, “Hay Yoo, Meester”. You don’t want to see these bathrooms.
El Cisne again
I have spent the last five days or so in El Cisne shooting pictures, interviewing, meeting people trying to document the town before the pilgrimage begins. It turns out that the pilgrimage is one event of a whole two months or more of celebrations and that the city of El Cisne and the Virgin statue [...]
El Cisne: First Trip
Beginning very soon (Friday) I will begin photographing the town of El Cisne, Ecuador in preparation for a religious pilgrimage that departs from El Cisne on August 17, 2009. Going to be covering the journey, the town, the pilgrims and all things related and on the periphery for my master’s project. Reporter Sara Shahriari and [...]