Return To Sender: An exhibition of postables

August 10, 2012 in Africa, Barefoot Initiative, Ethiopia, Exhibition, India, Kenya, Latin America, Peru, Photography, Tanzania

Is there somewhere you would rather be? The inaugural BLINDSIDE Festival themed 'Everywhere But Here' is a multi-platform event where artists and the audience can connect, discuss, and imagine alternate destinations together.

Return to Sender - An exhibition of postables will include a small collection of seven 5"x7"photographic prints by Anna Fawcus, documenting scenes from Africa, India, and Latin America.

Artists from across the world, post their creative works based on notions of travel and destination. This eclectic group of works documents the artists’ or the art work’s journey through time and place. BLINDSIDE’s postal route will be lined with biro scribbles, collaged topographies, painted meanderings, strange imaginings and photographs from afar.

Opening Thursday 9 August, 8.00-9.00pm. This exhibition runs from 9 to 11 August 2012. Exhibition hours are 12-6pm.

BLINDSIDE GALLERY

Level 7, Room 14, Nicholas Building 37 Swanston St Melbourne 3000

http://www.blindside.org.au/2012/everywhere-but-here.shtml

These are the selected photographs of mine to be included in this exhibition:

Seaweed Farmer in Zanzibar

Boy with gun in Afar region of Ethiopia

Rice Farmers in West Bengal, India

Quinoa Farmer in Puno, Peru

Donkey overlooking the Rift Valley in Kenya

Sea Turtle in Zanzibar

Living onboard the Yavari on Lake Titicaca

September 06, 2011 in Latin America, NGO Photography, Peru, Photography, Photojournalism

I've spent the last couple of weeks living onboard the Yavari, a 150 year old British gunship, on Lake Titicaca, in Puno, Peru. I've been staying on the boat as a guest of the Peruvian Times, whilst shooting part of a cookbook in the local area, which will be a fundraising project to help with the future plans for the Yavari. Here's a few photos of the Yavari from the past couple of weeks:

The Yavari, Lake Titicaca, Puno, Peru, 2011

For more information on the Yavari project, B&B, or history of the boat, have a look at their website.

Sacred Valley Project in Cusco

September 04, 2011 in Humanitarian, NGO Photography, Photography

Some of the photos I took in the hills Cusco for the Sacred Valley Project have now been published on the Sacred Valley Website.

FcLcc: Community Learning Cultural Centre in Peru

September 02, 2011 in Art, Latin America, NGO Photography, Peru, Photography

Over the past couple of months in Peru, I have spent quite a lot of time with an inspirational individual and his small theatre group, out in the suburbs of Lima, in Villa Maria del Triunfo. Fernando Flores has been pushing to open a local drama centre to make theatre accessible to youth from the area who may otherwise not be able to afford it. 45% of the people living in Villa María del Triunfo live on or below the poverty line. Fernando is a qualified performing arts teacher, who is employed to teach at ENSAD in the centre of Lima. He currently volunteers his time in several local schools who have no budget in their curriculum for drama classes. He also teaches a young theatre troupe in his spare time, in both performing arts, and also in teaching for those who are interested.

Richard Coates, a British man has been working with Fernando to put together a non-profit organization and raise the funding required to one day open a large performing arts centre in Villa Maria del Triunfo. For more information on FcLcc as a non-profit organization in the UK, and to find out about what they are doing, please check out their website

Here are a few photos of Fernando at work, and in his community, working with theatre students:

Fernando Flores performs at ENSAD in Lima, Peru

Fernando Flores works with young theatre group to put together a show

Fernando Flores volunteers at a local school in Villa Maria Del Triunfo, Lima, Peru

Fernando Flores in his local area of Villa Maria Del Triunfo, Lima, Peru

Villa Maria Del Triunfo, Lima, Peru

Fernando Flores volunteers at a local school in Villa Maria Del Triunfo, Lima, Peru

Working with the Peruvian Times

September 01, 2011 in Agriculture, NGO Photography, Peru, Photography, Photojournalism

I've recently been doing a few small assignments for the Peruvian Times, whilst I've been in Peru. I've visited with a couple of small non-profit organizations, one in Lima, and one in Sacred Valley, Cusco. I've also been working in the region around Puno on a collection of photographs for an upcoming cooking book for the Peruvian Times, which will be used to raise funding for the Yavari Project. The cooking book is from a slightly different angle, showing the farmers, factories, growers and markets, as well as the final meals on plates, so it has been a great few weeks traveling through the countryside, through coffee factories, quinoa plants, local markets, a trout fishing farm, as well as some of Puno's finest restaurants, and hidden gems. I look forward to sharing more when the book is released, but in the meantime, here are a few photos:

Return To Sender: An exhibition of postables

Living onboard the Yavari on Lake Titicaca

Sacred Valley Project in Cusco

Working with the Peruvian Times

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