Announcement of Uganda: A River Blue exhibition in the current Maine Media Workshops newsletter. Thanks Kate, Melissa, and MMW.

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Announcement of Uganda: A River Blue exhibition in the current issue of French PHOTO. Thanks Eve and French PHOTO for bringing this together.

Thank you all for attending the exhibition, kind wishes, and unending support. It was an enormous success and absolutely packed for 3 hours. So great to see so many old and new friends!

Thanks Felicia, Ryan, and Carlo at AnastasiaPhoto; Chandler Griffin from A River Blue; Color Services for the exquisite framing; catering; family; friends; colleagues; and all the individuals from northern Uganda and A River Blue from which this work could not have been created without. I am indebted to you all.

If you have pictures from the opening, please send them to david (at) davidwrightphoto.com. I’d like to feature a few here.

Join us again Tuesday, March 16th at 6:30pm when Chandler Griffin, founder of A River Blue, and I present a conversation about northern Uganda and A River Blue.

Join and support us tonight, March 4th from 6:30-8:30PM for the opening reception of Uganda: A River Blue at AnastasiaPhoto in New York. The opening reception and exhibition are open to the public.

This work was created in January and February 2009 when I spent 2 months in northern Uganda photographing for A River Blue, a school providing psychosocial counseling and intense vocational training in topics like tailoring, agriculture, and arts to vulnerable youth.

A beautiful A River Blue catalogue designed by Josh Gomby and printed by Booksmart Studio in an edition of 200 will be released at the opening reception. The catalogue will be available through donations of any amount and 100% of the proceeds go to A River Blue.

Additionally, Chandler Griffin, founder of A River Blue, and I will give an artist’s talk Tuesday, March 16th, from 6:30-8:30PM at AnastasiaPhoto.

AnastasiaPhoto is located at 166 Orchard Street, New York, New York.

Last Thanksgiving I photographed Alexander Shatravka and his wife, Irina, in northern Maine for a story about Soviet dissidents for the February 11th, 2010 issue of Apu, an old finnish all family weekly magazine founded in 1933. Marrku, the creative I worked with on this story, told me that “apu” means “help” in English and that when the magazine was founded it was sold in the streets by poor people.

I’m very pleased with the layout and the way the photographs ran. Thanks for a pleasureable experience, Markku and Apu!

I’m down in the Mississippi Delta for 1 more week attending Barefoot Workshops’ 2-week Mississippi Delta Workshop. The experience has been remarkable and in my opinion the best workshop environment for learning documentary film making.

Our instructors are Chandler Griffin, Julie Winokur, Teddy Symes, and Yoni Brook — all amazing individuals with a wealth of knowledge they have been sharing. Plus, we have the fotune of having previous workshop alums with us. Check out Barefoot’s website if you have ever wanted to learn and experience doc film making.

Fields, Clarksdale, Mississippi, 2010

I’m down in Clarksdale, Mississippi for the next 2 weeks at a documentary film making workshop presented by Barefoot Workshops. We’ll learn documentary story telling through video, film and sound capture, editing with Final Cut Pro, and more. Check out Barefoot if you have not already.

Here are a couple installation pictures of Uganda: A River Blue at AnastasiaPhoto. See the photographs if you’re in New York and join us March 4th from 6:30-8:30 P.M. for the opening reception.

I flew into JFK a couple weeks ago and the light was truly gorgeous.

Skyline with the water, rays of light, and clouds

Looking down at the water

A night ago, before going to bed, something told me to look outside into the darkness, and so I did. I turned off my computer monitor and gazed through the nearby windowpane. You can imagine my surprise when in the snow I saw a large, unmoving object. At first I thought it was a neighbor’s old Christmas tree being thrown out that had somehow blown into my yard.

Then I realized it was a large deer, asleep but awake, listening to the woods. It was somehow simple but also extraordinary. I immediately thought of Amy Stein’s Domesticated series, though my photograph is nowhere near as beautiful as are hers!

Here’s a spread from the beautiful Uganda: A River Blue catalogue Josh Gomby is designing.