tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2095058525796406832024-03-05T05:07:43.875-08:00Tanzania Print Workshops 2012Prehistoric Rock Art, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and hand made papers all coming together for 3 weeks of ink jet printing and photography workshops in Arusha.Gary Wornellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09033216022769181878noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-209505852579640683.post-3672269848372810702012-02-27T21:26:00.000-08:002012-03-01T23:21:56.313-08:00My Tanzanian 'Big Five'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taanisah's portrait on the Face to Face poster outside the Rock Art Gallery</td></tr>
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28.2 - The camera has given me the greatest opportunity to get out into the world and meet people. Tanzania - with all its wildlife and natural beauty is what brings most people here on their 'trip of a lifetime'; the Safaris into those amazing nature preserves, the so called 'Big Five' - Rhino, Lion, Buffalo, Leopard and Elephant. I'm not sure why they haven't included the Tanzanian national animal - the giraffe? Curious.<br />
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The hunters still come to take their trophies home, walk about with their guides inside the 'wild cage' - the guides who know just where to go - and the photographers anxious to repeat endless shots of sunsets, migrations, and zoom-lens photographs out of Land Cruiser windows. <br />
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Here then are my top five from the last 3 weeks and a strong reason to return to Tanzania in the future;<br />
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<li>Rock Art of Kondoa - the Amarula Campsite and the people of the surrounding villages.</li>
<li>Workshop participants who did an amazing job, learned fast, were passionate and inspired me with their results</li>
<li>Face to Face at the Arusha Masai Cafe - the most fun you can have with a camera and an Epson ink jet printer all in one day</li>
<li>Paper making with Seppo using local materials</li>
<li>Pizza at the Masai Cafe, served by Rashidi - if you haven't tried one its worth a trip to Arusha</li>
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I'm off home later today - a nice bus ride north to Nairobi in the changing season. I met some great people here in the last three weeks. <br />
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The Face to Face day yesterday was a great success - 30 portrait sessions in just 7 hours - special thanks to Seppo and Julieth, Emmanuel, Elke and Clive Justice who worked from 2pm to 8pm tirelessly providing a seamless flow of people in front of my camera. Big thanks also to Vernon and his friend for their spontaneous music during the gig keeping those waiting for their portraits entertained. I only heard it filtering through the wall as I was busy with the portraits! All the shots were taken with just two Canon 580 EX's and some rechargeables. When the power went off I could still shoot - so this morning we are finishing up the printing. There are too many faces to put into this blog, but here are a few of my favorites before I pack up my gear and head over to the Impala hotel to catch the shuttle.<br />
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<br /></div>Gary Wornellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09033216022769181878noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-209505852579640683.post-33228672831139528262012-02-26T07:28:00.002-08:002012-02-26T07:40:23.399-08:00Print Day at the Arusha Masai Cafe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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26.02 - From a quiet start to the weekend workshops, Sunday turned out to be busy from 10am to 6pm. Zaneb - a 13 year old and some lovely pictures of lily pads and seaside images started by coating some Japanese papers and Tyvek with InkAid. While they were drying we pushed forward with her portfolio - making some small tweeks to the images before printing on the Epson Traditional Photo paper.<br />
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Vernon had a great series of street shots again I tweeked them and converted a couple to Black and White and all turned out brilliantly - printing first on A3 and then to A2 for the shot he wanted large.<br />
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And then Peter - with his series of monochromatic images - shot on a small pocket camera - great tones beautifully rendered on this great paper.<br />
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There were no hiccups, except perhaps the time running out and people needing to dash off for various reasons. Here then is a selection of the participants works.<br />
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Thanks to everyone who helped out and took part in this workshop. Always fun and many surprises. Tomorrow we have Face to Face at the Arusha Masai Cafe - last blog update tomorrow night before I head back to Finland on Tuesday.</div>Gary Wornellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09033216022769181878noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-209505852579640683.post-38841036192490340102012-02-24T21:13:00.000-08:002012-03-16T04:41:34.595-07:00Finnish Sauna in Arusha<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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24.02 - It was a day of printing the Rock Art on hand made papers. There are dozens of files now prepared for print and with the Epson SP 9900 printing on the heavily deckled edges is quite a simple process. By disabling the paper size check and the paper skew check the bottom rough edged media can be put into the printer feed about 2cm from the feel rollers and the machine will ignore the fact that the paper isn't square. So the printing went really smoothly and the prints started coming out fast.<br />
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Arrangements with the students from St Constantine International School to come in the evening for presentations somehow never materialized and after waiting for them to turn up for a while we decided to have sauna.<br />
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Now - how on earth did there come to be a Finnish Sauna at the Arusha Masai Cafe? When Seppo and Julieth took over the property there was a building used for storage between the outdoor restaurant and the kitchen. Seppo noticed a chimney sticking out of the roof - and inside a paneled up room - clearly with an area smaller than the shape of the building. Removing the panels he discovered a kiuas (sauna stove) and benches - a complete Finnish Sauna! So, as it happens the people who originally owned the place had been Finns and typically no home is complete without one.<br />
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The last thing I expected on coming to Tanzania was to spend an evening under the African stars sweating it out in a Finnish sauna - but there we were in that 'holy' place enjoying our Kilimanjaro beers - eating locally made makkara (sausage) and relaxing in the cool late summer night.<br />
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24.02 - Yesterday we went out to look for some PVC support sheet - a journey through an industrial area of Arusha - dusty wide rough dirt roads lined with large scale buildings and people walking about. We didn't have much luck finding what we were looking for - but we did get some leads that Seppo can follow up after I leave.<br /><br />Its not much fun shooting from the window of a Land Rover kangaroo. First off it feels too much like cheating for me - if I take a shot people should have the option to complain and give me the chance to delete something if they really don't want to be in the picture. So there is a certain amount of guilt involved in taking shots like these, but with so little time to get out of the vehicle I haven't got a lot of choice except to not take any.<br />
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<br /><br />After work we ate at the cafe and headed out to Via Via - a local outdoor night club frequented by local Tanzanian's, European's and white faces from various corners of the world in a large rambling series of dance floors, bars and a food stall or two.<br />
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White faces provide a ticket to a so-called 'better life' for ambitious youth, and there is a slight feeling that it doesn't matter much who you are as what you might be able to do in providing more options to an otherwise limited choice. Stressed out Europeans and North Americans tired of fighting a losing rat race battle to have more of everything enjoy the 'chill' of the Tanzanian culture and women and men everywhere in the world fall for the 'I've never felt this way about anyone before' routine with the conviction of lemmings with only a small proportion of them finding someone who really means it.<br />
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Inside the first dance hall the live music had the possibility to be quite good except that the habit of bands here tinkling away their tunes with the characteristic echo effects on full is to turn the volume of the singer up so high that it sounds more like an auction at a cattle ranch than anything remotely melodic. The beat of the drummer stands up to the punishment inflicted on the rest of the band by the singer, so you can enter the dance floor for a limited period until the blood starts dripping from your ears.<br />
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In any case watching from a comfortable distance I do marvel at the articulated hip movements Tanzanian women are capable of while dancing and wonder if they are actually engineered differently to us westerners.<br />
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Somewhere around 2am I got a tap on the shoulder and I turn to see Elina Voipio - a neighbour from Finland doing voluntary work here. She's bright eyed and obviously thoroughly enjoying the work and as most people who come here to live for a while the journey home is met with a degree of reluctance.<br />
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Back to work topics then. Tonight we start the second Arusha Masai Cafe workshop so there is work to be done to prepare. It will be a mixed bunch this weekend with some from last weekend's workshop and some newcomers. A busy few days ahead and at sometime today I try and get a bit of shuteye to make up for the lack of sleep from last night. Its sunny again this morning and the cock is crowing - time to get moving.</div>Gary Wornellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09033216022769181878noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-209505852579640683.post-46757159020309411602012-02-23T00:29:00.001-08:002012-02-23T00:35:32.680-08:00Face to Face at the Arusha Masai Cafe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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23.2 - Its raining every day here. The autumn is approaching and by mid March the heavy rains will be at their fullest and the streets will be like rivers. With the afternoon rain comes the power cuts and here at the cafe the staff run around outside removing cushions and the guests take shelter underneath the straw shades.<br />
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This morning I was at the police station to report the stolen phone. Fares Lameck came with me and the process took only an hour. There are no computers here, the station is a drab and dirty building with heavy report books and papers everywhere. At 8:30 am it is full already. A group of officers carry out a beaten up guy covered in blood and he lies on the floor beside 7 others huddled together. The officer takes the details of my case with Fares's help and the large report book with a carbon copy is filled out. We are directed upstairs to a long corridor with women and children huddled at the end of the hall and a series of rooms where I fill out forms and pay the 500 TZS with receipt - followed by another room where I pay a further 1000 TZS without receipt and are free to go.<br />
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I'm coming close to the end of my stay in Tanzania. Yesterday I gave a talk at the St. Constantine International School on the outskirts of town to a group of 14 and 15 year olds - some local children and some the children of diplomats and NGO personnel. It is midterm exam time and so the planned workshops during the week were cancelled and some students will join us this weekend and combine with the group we started with last week on Sunday for a final day of print. At the end of the talk several signed up for the workshop and I'm expecting a busy few days.<br />
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Seppo and I had been talking about the Face to Face project which I had done in Germany and Finland - a spontaneous and surprising exhibition of portraits created in real time and printed on the Epson SP 9900. The Arusha Masai Cafe is a meeting point with plenty of visitors popping in all day from 12 noon to 8pm and I thought it would be fun to try this using my Canon speedlights inside the gallery space. We've put an advert in the local advertiser and starting at 2pm. Emmanuel Kichere will be my assistant and will handle the downloading and cataloguing and prepare the shots for print. <br />
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So, on Wednesday afternoon we set up the lights and I ran him through the workflow. He's a bright guy, a very fast learner and certainly knows more about computers than I do - so he's at ease with the process and will hand the printing.<br />
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As were were experimenting with a few lighting setups Taanisah walks in the door - a young Tanzanian artist making enquiries about the space and I seize the opportunity to model and teach Emmanuel a bit more about lighting at the same time.<br />
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Here then is the very primitive lighting set-up. I've got 2 x 580 EX's - a key light mounted on a tripod stand and with a Lastolite softbox and the power set to 1/2 through 2 diffusers. This creates a relatively strong main light. Emmanuel uses the light meter to get us a good exposure at 125s ISO 200 and F6.3 for a shot with enough depth of field to keep the models face in focus and blur the not-very-smooth wall behind.<br />
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I would like a darker background to give better separation but you work with what you have and I'm happy with the results. The fill light is provided by a shoot-through white umbrella jammed inside the rungs of a stepladder and up really close set at 1/32 power. Everything is on manual so I can jump around the model and always get a perfect exposure.<br />
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As we were finishing up, Alvaro - the Spanish biology teacher and gifted photographer whom I met at St. Constantine's International School turned up for a beer and chat. He gave up a lucrative photography career in Madrid to come to teach biology here after getting his PhD. <br />
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Face to Face - If you are in Arusha (or want to pop down to Tanzania for the afternoon) come and join us. Its going to be a great last day (barring technical issues like power failures which happen on a regular basis anyway) and on Tuesday I'll be on a bus to Nairobi to meet up with Mukesh from Epson before I fly back to Finland on Wednesday.<br />
<br /></div>Gary Wornellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09033216022769181878noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-209505852579640683.post-87040262544694651322012-02-21T00:55:00.000-08:002012-02-21T00:57:46.972-08:00Men<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It is in the countryside again where you meet people who have time as the pace of life is so much slower than the city. I had a few memorable encounters with men, in particular one young guy who had a Fuji film lab somewhere on the road to Kondoa and his pictures you can see in an earlier blog entry <a href="http://tanzaniaworkshops2012.blogspot.com/2012/02/road-to-kondoa.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Women seem to always be busy in Tanzania - carrying, cooking, collecting water and looking after their babies and the children just seem to buzz around the village playing and getting up to the things that children do. The young girls and boys who are big enough carry water from the springs as part of their chores. The men however seem to live a different life - at least they seem to be on holiday whenever I pass by, and they sit in the shade of their houses while domestic work goes on around them. Not all men are like that of course and Daniel from Mneia near Kondoa works hard with Seppo on his projects and does so with amazing quiet efficiency.<br />
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Of the people in these photographs one of my favorites is Juma also from the village of Mneia - an older man who suddenly spoke to me in very fluent English and with a clarity of mind that too me by surprise. At 70 he is wiry and fit - a farmer in that area and probably one of the elders in the village contributing to local politics and the management of the community. He made me laugh with his comments and agreed for me to take his picture providing he could get a copy. 'Yes of course' I agreed with enthusiasm. 'Will you really send me a picture' he asked. 'I hope you don't have to ask me that question' I answered. (Must do it today so that Seppo can take it to him when he next travels to Kondoa in a few weeks.)<br />
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So - the other men are from Arusha - either working here at the Arusha Masai Cafe or fixing Seppo's Land Rover.<br />
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Out of the hustle and bustle of the city it is easier to meet people. Stopping by the road side in a village you find children gathering around; curious and shy playing for the camera and running to see the pictures you have taken. Sitting in the shade of a tree women are cooking or at the water spring they are filling their brightly coloured plastic buckets to carry on their heads back home.<br />
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These shots were taken in various locations between Arusha and Kondoa in the brief moments we had outside the Land Rover. Many people want money if you take their picture and this is a hard one for me because once you give money you have to keep giving money. I know photographers who do pay for their shots and its not much money by western standards, but somehow to me you never really make the proper connection when money becomes the currency of contact. I have enough fun with the people who open up to me as people and the ones who want money I leave alone. It takes time to meet people and take a portrait. Most of the time I shoot with a 50mm lens - up close and engaged. A long lens puts too much distance between me an my subject; shooting from several meters away I would feel too separated.<br />
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The shade behind buildings is bright and even and the hot sun bounces up off the street creating soft shadows on the faces.<br />
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Here are a few shots then of the women and children I have met during my travels here. They are beautiful people living in their world as we live in ours with the same basic concerns; family, food and shelter.<br />
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<br /></div>Gary Wornellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09033216022769181878noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-209505852579640683.post-77558076552105372242012-02-19T21:19:00.000-08:002012-02-19T21:55:24.474-08:00Arusha Speedlight Workshop<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Sunday 19.2 - After yesterday's highs during creative coating and printing workshop I had noticed that several of the participants were taking an interest in my use of speedlights to balance difficult lighting situations and decided to split the day into separate print and speedlight parts - starting with another attempt to create a custom profile for the Epson Enhanced Matte paper which had failed miserably on Saturday (too old software and a bug with my Mac).<br />
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Now armed with updated software we printed out the targets and rebuilt the color table with the spectrophotometer and tested. It was perfect. The shadow tones - not present in the standard Epson profile were now open and detailed and the color balance of the whole test image compared with the previous days attempts proved the need for good color management to the group.<br />
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Having made such a mess of the target reading the day before (a result of dividing the job between 4 people with tiles read inaccurately and an older version of the software that seemed to have problems on my Mac) I brought the target image into Photoshop and soft proofed the bad profile and good profile side by side to show them how easy it is to see if you have gone wrong - something I could have done before printing yesterday.<br />
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While waiting for the targets to dry we printed on the InkAid coated media and got excellent results!<br />
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As lunch time was approaching rapidly and my stomach was seriously rumbling from a 16 hour gap in organic input, I decided to set up the second session while the food was being prepared and leave the participants to it while I took a break.<br />
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With great good fortune I had managed to convince Laura (from Finland), and Seppo's wife Juliet to pose for us starting at 2 pm and they turned up on time with Juliet's sister Jackie. They had brought a change of wardrobe and the plan was to work in two different lighting situations - one inside and one outside.<br />
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For the inside scene we worked in the Rock Art Gallery with a plane cream white wall. With only 2 speedlights to work with it was going to be a challenge to get balanced lighting - but with a makeshift reflector (a white PVC sheet used as a support for the Japanese papers) I thought we stood a chance of getting something good out of the minimum amount of gear.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The basic setup with the white wall gelled to blue</td></tr>
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I wanted to turn the back wall from the rather boring off-white to a dark blue - for a bit of drama and used a deep colored gel and grid spot to throw the colour onto the wall. With the manual settings on the camera set to ISO 200, 125th sec. and F6.3 at I shot a few frames at the wall until the light gave a nice dark background and then with a chair about 2.5m from the wall put a small shoot-through umbrella above and right and very close to the model with the power down low to avoid spilling light onto the beautiful dark blue of the wall behind. It worked!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The deep blue background shot with a 580 EX and a gelled gridspot</td></tr>
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So, with my stomach now anticipating the thought of a visitor, I gave a brief talk on the theory of the set-up to the participants and as I had no light stands with me they could take turns as VOL's (voice activated light stands) and one VOR (voice activated reflector).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Laura in silhouette before the key light </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Laura with a Lastolight softbox - later to be added a shoot through umbrella</td></tr>
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As I sat down outside in the shade to eat the thunder in my stomach evaporated into the skies above Mount Meru and I fully expected another power failure and wee bit of a monsoon - but nothing materialized and with the inside session complete we moved out into the grounds of the cafe for an ambient/speedlight mix.<br />
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The sun was jumping in and out of the clouds and and the hard and soft change of light was exactly the situation I wanted to work with. Here the idea was to find enough shade to avoid heavy shadows and then set up the camera to underexpose the background so we could use a key light and a fill to separate the model from the background and make her pop! I gave a few simple instructions with a short demonstration and then left them to it.<br />
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With around 40 frames each from the 2 sessions they got really great results. Its one thing to focus on the technique, get everything set up and balanced and then get the model to respond but somehow they did an amazing job.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emmanuel's mother and son shot (he has only ever used a phone camera before this)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A few BTS views with patient VOL's and little Ronnie keen to join in</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ema Motta getting my take on the shoot (complete with a now full stomach)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emmanuel Kichere with the shoot through and me behind with the key light</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vernon's shot of the lovely Jackie against a background nicely exposed with the Land Rover and Tanzanian flag</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ema Motta's shot of Laura on the steps of the back kitchen</td></tr>
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Little Roni - 4 1/2 (5 on the 15th of June so he tells me) took a keen interest in the action and picked up his dad's little point and shoot to join in the fun. His concentration was astonishing. I watched him for a few minutes standing there with his arms outstretched framing up the shot - and as each of the participants arranged their model and started to shoot he would press the shutter as soon as he heard the Canon 5D mkII shutter release next to him.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Little Roni's (4 going on 5) shot of Jackie without lights using Seppo's point and shoot!</td></tr>
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We wrapped the shoot up soon after 5pm and went back inside to download and develop. Lightroom is the best. I explained a little about cataloguing and keyboarding so that each could easily find their own shots and they selected one to develop and print. With me at the controls and a seriously efficient workflow we had the images tweaked for print at at 5:55 pm printed out the shots on the Epson 9900. <br />
<br /></div>Gary Wornellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09033216022769181878noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-209505852579640683.post-11044480222038323672012-02-18T22:40:00.000-08:002012-02-18T22:45:13.490-08:00Creative Print Workshop<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Presentations evening 17.2 - On Friday night we got together at the Arusha Masai Cafe for an evening of presentations. With about 9 people registered for the workshop only 4 turned up but it was a great evening of presenting each other's works on the projector. None of the participants are professionals but there were some amazing photographs to be seen. No power cuts - a rare thing in these parts and the discussions continued until around 10pm.<br />
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Colour, Print, Profiles and Coatings 18.2 - Saturday morning we started with the colour management - calibrating all the laptop monitors they had and showing them how important it is to have a balanced display using the Datacolor Spyder Elite. Thanks to Sami Eskonlahti from Suomen Interfoto in Finland and Datacolor for their support in the project!<br />
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Then we moved on to building custom profiles - had some difficulty with the older version of the software on my Mac and downloaded an update for tomorrow's session. Still, printing through Qimage with different profiles they got an idea how important it is to have a correct profile to get a good result.<br />
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Next we moved on to hand coating - thanks to support from InkAid we had a variety of coatings for the locally made hand made papers, Japanese papers and Tyvek I brought from home.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emmanuel Kichere applying gelatin to Washi paper on a support sheet</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emmanuel Kichere coating with InkAid</td></tr>
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Torrential rain and a power cut lasted throughout the afternoon just when we didn't need electricity and came back on when the coatings were dry so that we got all the Japanese papers printed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emmanuel Kichere preparing files to print</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emmanuel Kichere's print of buffalo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emmanuel's Washi paper print</td></tr>
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Great to have an enthusiastic bunch to work with - inspired choice of prints and fast learners! At the end of the day I could more or less leave them on their own to set up the prints on the Epson 9900. <br />
<br /></div>Gary Wornellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09033216022769181878noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-209505852579640683.post-4340121411780915352012-02-15T21:09:00.002-08:002012-02-15T21:09:55.853-08:00The Kolo Rock Art Site<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Rock Art Site Day 2 - 12.2 - I managed to get up early enough at the campsite to photograph a panorama of the view across the hills. It was an amazing morning, but then again most mornings out here are.<br />
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We drove to meet our guide Rawa Ramadhani who will take us to the Kolo site. As we climbed the steep slopes to the rock face through dense brush, I caught a glimpse of the enormous valley that lay below. With the sun just barely up and a slightly cloudy sky the view was stunning. The small villages with their low level houses could not be seen at all from here.<br />
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Rock Art Site Day 1 - 11.2 - After the session at Imbafi school we headed up to the village of Kolo to pick up our guide. Seppo negotiated the price for our two visits. Soon we were off down the road to Pahi.<br />
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There are no roads to these places just a series of footpaths - a long ride through deep ruts and twisting through the trees. We park the Land Rover as close as possible and walk up the hills.<br />
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The large overhanging stones protect the work from the weather and fences that have been constructed to preserve them from vandalism have been stolen for the wood and metal. It seems that steeling is a way of life in this land with so much need. A Rock Art site with whatever importance to the rest of the world has little meaning to locals living a subsistence existence where food, water and shelter are their main concerns.<br />
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The sun rises at 6 - at least the sky brightens quite suddenly and by 7 it has risen above the hills around the campsite. The gently sloping hill with the neat group of buildings Seppo has constructed with local people provides a perfect place for visitors to the Kondoa Rock Art sites. There main building is an open thatched roofed construction with a small kitchen and solar power panels providing electricity to a battery that should charge enough to feed a power point where we can charge computers, phones and batteries for my camera. It seems to overload more than it should so I take care to use my laptop only for the essential downloading of flash cards and transfers of back up files.</div>
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Down the hill to the village of Imbafi we turn up the long road that leads to a group of single story buildings grouped in a U formation, outcrops of rock poking out from the dense green on the hills just behind. Saturday is a voluntary day of school and we have no idea how many students are going to take part.</div>
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Inside the classroom we meet two teachers and discuss the project in more detail. The morning is heating up and the cool classroom is a relief from the hot sun outside.<br />
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Seppo presents the idea to them - the Rock Art of the future. Using images based on the things that they encounter in their lives, they will make drawings first on paper and then directly to the rock. </div>
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On the floor we have spread copies of the ancient drawings in the area and Seppo tells something of their meanings. </div>
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Outside the children hunt for stones they can use for their images. Gathered under the shade of the trees they sit and draw on the white paper with pencils in silence.<br />
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There is no drawing in the school curriculum, just academic subjects and I can see that many of them are struggling with representing the images that are in their heads. CM has joined us to help out and sits making brushes from the materials we found in a hardware store the day before. </div>
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One of the teachers turns up with some feathers - a much better idea as the line made from a feather is cleaner. </div>
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Soon the images appear - mobile telephones, a shirt, fish, a clock and a house and many more. The pencil drawings are stiff and tight but once they start working with the brushes the line develops a rich quality with the deep red paint.</div>
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We head back into the classroom with the painting of the stones compete and lay them on the floor to be photographed. The Epson 3800 is plugged in and in a few minutes we are printing. This is a first experience for many if not all of these boys and girls. To see something they have created photographed and then printed on the hand made papers has animated them and the atmosphere is great. </div>
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After the printing we arrange a group shot in the shade of a tree in the yard. The feeling is great but the encounter is all too brief. We should have more time. One of the young boys had started to speak to me about photography, about printing. Maybe it was just a spark of inspiration and maybe this short few hours will give him something more than just a print on paper smiling out of this group photo in this remote region.<br />
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A few days later I showed an elderly man in another village the work the children had done. 'Who taught them to draw like that?' he asked. 'No one', I replied. I talked with Seppo later about this. If they don't get any drawing classes or do any creative work outside of their normal school curriculum, then some of them probably do some kind of drawing at home. </div>
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As we left the school around 3 pm, the Land Rover filled up with students wanting a lift home. In their hands they had carefully wrapped prints - folded sheets of white paper protecting the colour group photograph of their creative work. For some it is a walk from 5-10 kilometers.<br />
<br /></div>Gary Wornellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09033216022769181878noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-209505852579640683.post-13247165554649836362012-02-14T07:15:00.000-08:002012-03-19T23:50:56.819-07:00The Road to Kondoa<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In the morning Seppo and I started preparing the things to take to
Kondoa. It is a 250 Km journey partly on paved road and the last 100 km
or so on dirt track. Its going to be a bumpy ride, especially the last
part and with the Epson 3800, hand made papers, camera gear and some
people to pick up on the way the Land rover is going to be packed full.<br />
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We hope to meet the school children in the village of Imbafi a short drive from the campsite where will be be living for the next few days. I cut some white matte paper for sample printing from a large roll we have here at the Arusha Masai Cafe. The children's work will be printed on the hand made papers.<br />
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We found some water based block printing paint -a similar colour to the rock paintings. We made a back up plan for paint brushes, made by splitting normal house paint brushes into smaller pieces and attached them to sticks - cool idea as one brush yielded about 8 separate smaller ones!<br />
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Before we left we got a call from the International School saying they would like to meet us on Tuesday 14 in the morning. Perfect.</div>
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On the road out of Arusha the streets were heavily congested with traffic and I took out my iPhone to shoot a couple of short sequences from the front passenger window. Suddenly a hand reached into the car and grabbed the phone from my hands. In a split second the iPhone disappeared. I wiped the door open - watched as the young boy disappeared into the crowd and it was gone. Damn. Nothing to be done - except block the phone.</div>
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Seppo drove on a for a bit to pick up some things for us to take and while in he was in the shop I went online using his USB internet stick - wrote a panic message through FB for Eeva to contact my service provider to cancel my account. I set up data delete through Find My iPhone and we headed off to Kondoa on the Great North Road - going south. </div>
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We passed villages that lined the road and saw the Masai wandering the landscape everywhere. Cows and goats herded together stopped at muddy watering holes scattered across the landscape. The young Masai boys preparing for their circumcision ritual had stark white painted faces - a dramatic contrast to the deep black of their skins.</div>
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We passed about 5 police check points on that road. At each stop a police officer would greet us, ask where we were going, looked around the inside of the Land Rover and waved us through. It reminded me a little of Pakistan, without the rifles slung over the shoulders.</div>
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The dry dusty landscape changed as we drove south becoming greener as the ground turned from a light sand to deep red. In a village about 30 km from the campsite we met up with our two passengers, Elke and Daniel and went for some fried chicken and rice at a local restaurant.</div>
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Picking up some provisions, building materials, bags of lime and strips of iron the Land Rover was now fully laden and we headed off for the last 80km journey to the campsite. </div>
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Tomorrow we will drive down to the village and meet the students for the first of the Rock Art workshops. At the moment we don't know how many there will be or what we will do exactly. For now I'm ready for bed.</div>
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During the night I could hear singing in the village below. The rhythms were familiar - and out here in this remote landscape I could imagine the gathering of women singing in the dark as the moon rose high above my head.<br />
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</div>Gary Wornellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09033216022769181878noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-209505852579640683.post-4032939390986809652012-02-09T22:05:00.000-08:002012-02-15T21:11:08.964-08:00The Road to Arusha<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Wednesday 8: You can of course fly to Kilimanjaro for the extra fare,
but I wanted to see the land - as much as possible from ground level so I
opted for the bus and a 4 hour bus ride including stops at customs.
After the first toilet stop I chatted with an elderly man Muhamed who
was traveling with his wife from France where they had been living most
of their adult lives. They've come to visit friends and family in the
place of their birth. He is curious about my folding tripod and the
iPhone videos. As the bright late afternoon light streamed through the
window I thought I'd try some shots of him and he was a willing subject.
Holding the wireless flash in his left hand I pulled off a couple of
shots but the ground was moving underneath my feet so fast I was afraid I
was going to land in the arms of the woman sitting on the opposite side
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The heat, dust, bumpy roads and light contrast make taking pictures a
bit of an ordeal. At the stops (customs, borders and check points) you
stand in queues unable to take photos and waiting for your picture to be
taken and your fingers scanned, so there isn't many opportunities to
take advantage of the scenery. There is something quite special about
the road - and I put the iPhone to work in the front of the bus as we
navigated a narrow stretch of highway close to the active volcano Mount
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Thursday 9 7:30am: The voice in my dream is Seppo, 'Do you want to get up now or sleep some more?' Dream says stay in bed, brain says get up. In a few minutes I've showered, and am at the door ready to leave. Little Ronnie, 4 and a half ( I'll be five on June 15th he says) is dressed for school and swings on the metal front door gate while we wait for the others. He's chatty and happy and driving up to the school he skips up the steps with an eagerness that is refreshing. <br />
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At the Arusha Masai Cafe we have breakfast and start thinking about the workshops, the trip to Kondoa and how we are going to work first with the local children who's ancestors were the people who made the Rock Art paintings tens of thousands of years ago. Seppo tells me that their DNA is pure and that they have no mixed blood. <br />
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After breakfast I unpack the camera gear, put tripods, flash systems and portable hard drives in order to keep the documenting process as ready as possible for anything that happens. Setting up my panorama head with the Sony R1 I take it out into the intense summer sun and do a quick panorama of the Arusha Masai Cafe from the front side.<br />
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In the afternoon we do a bit more planning and come up with a fun solution for the Kondoa school children. We improvise some brushes and think about the problems we might encounter on the way. Its dusty here - its dusty everywhere and keeping an ink jet printer in good condition basically means you have to seal it when its not being used to stop the invisible blanket of dust from seeping in everywhere. After jus a few hours you can run your finger over a surface and find a fine layer chalk-like dust covering everything.<br />
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Tomorrow we plan a quick stop at the International school to discuss the photography and print project with the teachers. Then we'll head south to Kondoa for the weekend with the local school project starting on Saturday.<br />
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Ok, so the last thing I really expected to hear at the BA check-in at Vantaa - exactly one and a half hours before the flight was due to leave was someone telling me that I couldn't board the plane for my flight to Nairobi because I didn't have a bus ticket for my transit out of Kenya.<br />
You know that feeling. That feeling that says this is going to be impossible - the guy behind the desk is certainly wrong because I have a return flight to Kenya - and it was only because I mentioned - yes mentioned that I was going to Arusha that he decided I couldn't travel. Why didn't I just say - OK - forget Tanzania - I'm going to Kenya!<br />
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Thinking fast under pressure isn't something one looks forward to - especially when so much hinges on me getting there on time - but a wasted flight is a serious waste of money. Think fast. Here then is a brief synopsis of the action movie as it happened. Flight is due to leave at 17:10:<br />
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<li>15:38 - Took the silly man's advice - left Eeva with the luggage and went to a hotel in the airport - connected to the internet and booked a bus ticket from Nairobi to Arusha.</li>
<li>15:39 - Online notification - We are processing your request.</li>
<li>15:49 - We are processing your request........</li>
<li>15:50 - Called Seppo - told him it wasn't working.</li>
<li>15:51 - Seppo gets in his car and drives to the local bus terminal office to buy me a ticket</li>
<li>16:15 - Seppo in the queue at the bus terminal</li>
<li>16:20 - Seppo calls and asks me for my flight details</li>
<li>16:22 - The woman at the bus terminal in Arusha calls me on Seppo's phone and asks for them again</li>
<li>16:23 - I get an email from the first contact I made on the internet saying something went wrong with the request and could I try again - heart beat is slowly increasing so I can hear it in my ears</li>
<li>16:24 - Seppo says he took a picture of the ticket and is sending it.</li>
<li>16:26 - I get it - resend to the woman at the hotel help desk who prints it out and I make a dash for the check-in. </li>
<li>16:28 - Just 2 minutes to spare - the silly man has left and the woman who has taken his place says - relax - your on the flight</li>
<li>16:30 - ticket issued - I say my brief goodbyes to Eeva and I haven't started through the flaming security hoops that can take at least 30 minutes. The gate is at the other end of the airport!</li>
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So I made it - and of course the plane was late.<br />
Looking back - and the fact that this mad series of events actually worked out dissolves the trauma into an interesting experience. I have friends - frequent fliers - who always time their check-in to the last moment. I admire them for their confidence but I don't think I'm going to change my habits any time soon.<br />
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The flight from Heathrow to Nairobi was pleasantly uneventful except that I found myself sitting beside an American older man with a fairly deep voice - somewhat effeminate in manner - whom I understood to perhaps be gay. We chatted as one does - watched action films which I thought were nowhere near as good as the excitement I had just experienced - and slept. In the morning over breakfast we chatted again and I discovered that there had been a divorce - at which point I asked if it had been a mutual amicable agreement with his former wife? 'Oh' - came the reply - 'You thought I was a man?'<br />
Pity I was in the window seat.<br />
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In Nairobi I had hours to kill - set about taking photographs - first of airport security offices (apparently) - and then of the men inside who decided to come out and ask questions.<br />
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I got lucky with the portraits and that helped me out of a possible rather sticky situation after which I was left free to wander the inside of the airport building and take pictures as I pleased.<br />
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By the time I boarded the bus to Arusha I felt refreshed and fully trained in the art of disarming officials with charming pictures of themselves and a notebook of email addresses to forward them on.<br />
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<br /></div>Gary Wornellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09033216022769181878noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-209505852579640683.post-21213557074132823522012-01-27T13:46:00.000-08:002012-01-27T14:42:07.225-08:00Mulberry, Cotton and Fig<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It must have been nearly two years ago when I got an email from Seppo Hallavanio from the <a href="http://www.racctz.org/" target="_blank">Rock Art Conservation Center</a> (RACC) in Arusha asking me something about printing with ink jet on hand made papers. At that time I had already printed on just about any thing I could find that would pass through the paper feed of my two Epson printers - the Stylus Pro 7800 and the 9880.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">photo: seppo hallavainio</td></tr>
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I was used to problem solving thick media, lumpy media, asymmetric metal sheets, really thin papers and synthetics as well as over printing and combining print with mixed media including chalk, inks and acrylic paints.<br />
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An ink jet printer is a highly sophisticated piece of precision equipment, and not something you want to mess around with - especially as an inappropriate choice of settings or thoughtless move can lead to an expensive repair. Having said that - in all the years I've been abusing these machines I've never once had to call out a technician to repair a mistake I've made. Touch wood.<br />
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Seppo is a paper maker, probably one of the best hand made paper makers from Finland, and since moving to Tanzania more than 10 years ago has involved himself in projects concerned with a variety of artistic and socioeconomically linked projects that are making an impact on communities in and around Arusha in northern Tanzania. So, to cut a very long story short (and one you can read in more detail <a href="http://www.racctz.org/" target="_blank">here</a>) we decided that a project that brought both our skills together in an environment not normally associated with ink jet printers, we could develop something that could benefit the local community by tapping into the incredibly rich and varied legacy of the Rock Art of the Kondoa UNESCO World Heritage Site.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">photo: seppo hallavainio</td></tr>
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And so the ball started rolling. At Photokina 2010 in Köln I presented the idea to <a href="http://www.epson.com/" target="_blank">Epson</a> and with their generous help and enthusiasm have managed to equip the RACC with the tools to print on papers made locally from readily available vegetation - mulberry, cotton and fig. On February 8th I'll drop into Arusha for three weeks and run a series of workshops for professional photographers, amateurs, paper makers, local school children and - well anyone with a passion for Rock Art and Print. If you're in or around Arusha, join us at the Arusha Masai Cafe Pemba Road, Arusha P.O.BOX 2288, Tanzania. <br />
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<br /></div>Gary Wornellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09033216022769181878noreply@blogger.com1Riihimäki, Finland60.7384937 24.772892560.7307322 24.7531515 60.7462552 24.7926335