Video: Lines of Grey Photo Project in Tanzania

“Lines of Grey” began as a photographic experiment with thirty street kids at the CCF centre in Arusha, Tanzania. For six months, disposable cameras were handed out to the children to teach them photography and through this medium explore their world. Apart from acquainting them to the joy of artistic discovery, the experiment also became a private invitation into their life on the street. Read more

www.theolympian.com: Photographer works for empowerment

Photographer works for empowerment

Diane Huber

Original post: http://www.theolympian.com/laceytoday/story/406793.html

Rebekah-mae Bruns spent a year in Iraq as an Army photographer. She returned shaken and consumed with stopping war.

“When I came home, the devastation became so overwhelming that I became almost obsessive about preventing it,” she said from her Lacey residence.

Bruns, 36, saw a connection between war and a lack of education — particularly female education.

She enrolled in Saint Martin’s University’s Master of Education program. Then she took her photography background to a village in southern Tanzania and spent three months teaching 14 teenage girls photography and video skills. Read more