How did you put the project together? How difficult was this aspect?
“I decided to work over a four month period up to the point where the large annual Herero gathering and festival happens, by which time I should have met and photographed a lot of people. I worked for a few months trying to get some good contacts which was surprisingly difficult, but eventually found the only Herero owned tour company in Namibia who provided a car and guides, and most importantly, local knowledge. My assistant came courtesy of Manchester University where I had lectured, and they have a work placement scheme so they sent them to me. We bought some tents, packed up the cameras and flew to Windhoek.
“It was quite physical, camping every day, driving thousands of miles, working every day in the heat and dust, cleaning and charging the cameras, putting up the tents, cooking, cleaning, looking for subjects, photographing, then putting up the tent again and so on. If you throw in a few scorpions and the odd angry elephant it’s quite a tough pace to keep up for four months. My assistant was great though and kept us laughing all the way.“
How did you put the project together? How difficult was this aspect?“I decided to work over a four month period up to the point where the large annual Herero gathering and festival happens, by which time I should have met and photographed a lot of people. I worked for a few months trying to get some good contacts which was surprisingly difficult, but eventually found the only Herero owned tour company in Namibia who provided a car and guides, and most importantly, local knowledge. My assistant came courtesy of Manchester University where I had lectured, and they have a work placement scheme so they sent them to me. We bought some tents, packed up the cameras and flew to Windhoek.“It was quite physical, camping every day, driving thousands of miles, working every day in the heat and dust, cleaning and charging the cameras, putting up the tents, cooking, cleaning, looking for subjects, photographing, then putting up the tent again and so on. If you throw in a few scorpions and the odd angry elephant it’s quite a tough pace to keep up for four months. My assistant was great though and kept us laughing all the way.“
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