When my wife is at work
We have written about Safaris, trekking in the forest, beautiful beaches and good food. It sounds like we are on holiday all the time, doesn’t it? We try to take advantage of the weekends and we have also been on a one week holiday to the mainland, but from Monday to Friday is working time.
Jurgita works at Mnazi Mmoja Hospital (MMH). And when she´s working, she´s working: Sometimes 8, sometimes 12 hours a day.
So what do I do?
There is a lot to do for me and my camera here. It is a win-win situation: More pictures and new challenges make me a better photographer, while the pictures I’m taking are being used by NGOs, MMH and other local companies.
I spent three days in Paje taking hundreds of pictures for the well-known Seaweed-Center where local women work so hard to make soaps, scrubs, oils and juice out of seaweed. I also spent some time taking the photos for Ushindi work-shop where local women sew fantastic fabrics. Recently I had the honor to take pictures of the Zanzibarian President when he opened the new ward at Mnazi Mmoja Hospital.
While we were on holiday in the mainland, I took some pictures for the Shagga-tribe who wants to attract more tourist and needed pictures for their webside. By the time I am writing this I spend a lot of time at the international school on Zanzibar taking pictures for a book that hopefully will be released before the summer.
So if you ask me if I´m bored, the answer is definitely NO. I love it here on Zanzibar helping people with photography.
Here are some of the pictures I’ve taken.
Picture for the Seaweed center; Women harvesting the seaweed at the beach of Paje.
The beautiful women at Ushindi workshop in Mbweni.
Photo taken for the Shagga-tribe making coffee at the foot of Kilimanjaro.
Close up of a giraff for a safari company in Moshi.
Picture used to advertise a fantastic beach-house in Chukwani.
Body-scrubs made from seaweed in Paje.
Me taking pictures of the president of Zanzibar for Mnazi Mmoja hospital.
