A huge thank you to friend and partner-in-crime, Nathan Worden, for asking me to assist and, of course, a thank you to Caitlin + Kyle for sharing their beautiful wedding day with us.
Monthly Archives: August 2011
{tanzania} Lengasti. Day of Ceremony, Part Two.
The chief of Lengasti, Kanunga.
{engagement} Kristina + Jamal
All I’m going to say is I could’ve photographed Kristina + Jamal for days. DAYS.
{tanzania} Lengasti. Day of Ceremony, part one.
On our third day in the village we were able to experience a new version of the Maasai female circumcision ceremony. Circumcision for both men and women in the Maasai culture is a monumental rite of passage. With village politics and new ways of thinking that are too complex for a short blog intro, the...
{tanzania} Lengasti at dusk
Lengasti has a stillness to it that I’ve never experienced before. A quick look towards the village before sunset and you’d think every one was tucked away into their homes. Walk through the village, however, and you discover many are still up and about, quietly working their way towards sleep. Cows are being tended to,...
{tanzania} lengasti school
The school in Lengasti village faces many of the same problems as other poor and rural areas of the world. There’s a lack of just about anything you could think of when it comes to a school — desks, books, water, chalk. Every year each child is supposed to receive 15, they’re lucky to receive...
{tanzania} lengasti. day one.
After spending one day in Lengasti I knew I was in love. Hours away from the closest city, Arusha, the village springs up out of nowhere in the middle of the African landscape. In many ways, it was exactly how I imagined it. Huts made out of mud and sticks, cattle just about every where...