Colombia Road flower market in London is a well known spot to get flowers every Sunday, this Sunday was the last before Christmas and a popular time to get your christmas tree. I noticed last year the streams of people filtering through the London Streets carrying their trees and vowed to return do a mini [...]
HANCi-SL – Images by Jenny Hardy “Help a Needy Child in Sierra Lone – HANCi/SL is a local organisation entirely run by Sierra Leoneans with funds generated from within and also from our overseas partners to restore the lost dignity in the lives of vulnerable children. This organisation was born out of a felt need to provide shelter [...]
James from The Spicery asked me to pop over and take a some pictures of the place in action. The Spicery is a wonderful spice company that has grown over the past years by James a fabulous chef that has worked in top restaurants over the globe and now combines his expertise and knowledge of [...]
One week after we arrived the bus was released from the port, after some work was carried out to adjust the thermostat and arrange the necessary papers we left for Kamakwie the following day. The journey took all the afternoon, first we drove to Makeni on a nice tarmac road, with only slight stop at [...]
This was a difficult part of the trip, not only was the bus held up at the port but we received a phone call saying that it had been looted. On Monday we headed to the port to inspect the damages and see what was left, having taken Mohammed to the pharmacy to get some [...]
Last night we were treated to a tropical weather storm, there was no need to count between the lightning flashes and the sound of thunder; it was difficult to sleep, but fascinating to watch. The safe house is nestled high on the hill so there was no way it was safe to venture outside the [...]
I have had to wait to do this post until I returned to the UK. Accessing the Internet in Sierra Leone is more than challenging; when you do find a Internet cafe, if the speeds are not the slower than the 90′s, the rain storm will knock you off your connection. We arrived late on [...]
While on a recent trip to Sierra Leone I met a midwife Alice Waterman who asked me to take some photographs of Makeni Government Hospital. Alice in in Sierra Leone training midwifes at a local training facility for VSO. She writes a blog about here experiences www.alicewatermaninsierraleone.blogspot.com, that was picked up by the BBC who [...]
This weekend I was at the Piers Simon Appeal Farm Concert snapping away. Every year the concert rasisis load of cash for the chartity and it was a really good event, the support from the local communinity is overwhelming. I really enjoyed taking photographs here, the light was challenging at times, but has helped create [...]
Bristol is an exciting place this summer for photography on the 20th May 2010 till the 09th of June is Bristol Festival of photography. Check here for a program of activates, exhibitions and workshops. The Love of It are organizing an Guerrilla Gallery and I had to get involved. I have been photographing my local area [...]
