A Photographer’s Photo: This is a departure

I was in a small village in the district of Mongkul Borei in western Cambodia a few days ago, working on a little photo/video piece about how the Baha’i community here is slowly (and sometimes not so slowly) transforming community life in a number of villages across the country by providing moral and spiritual education to children and youth. I know it doesn’t sound like much, but it really is having a profound effect in some of these places.

This is from the blog of a camera man. Wanna see a picture? Here… -gw

Just as I was bringing the camera to my eye, one of the boys grabbed a small cushion that was lying in the corner to hurled it across the room. The cushion, which had clearly seen better days, began to leak its feathers the moment it left the boy’s hand. Upon impact with his friend, the cushion exploded, filling the air with them. The boys froze when my shutter clicked. All of them turning to face me. We just looked at each other for a moment, feathers hanging in the air, light slanting in from the door across from me. They stared. I stared. Feathers drifted.

http://departureflounge.blogspot.com/2009/03/mongkul-borei.html

More pictures of the other kind here… -gw

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