By Scott MacLennan | Project Leader
The attached photos show Namuna and myself in a one-on-one class for basic studio portraiture. Namuna first came to live with us at The Mountain Fund when she was 15 years old. At that time she'd just been diagnosed as Type 1 diabetic and in the village where her parents lived there was no way to manage her medical needs. After high school Namuna took a course as a nurse assistant and loved it so much she immediately enrolled in nursing school. She finished her degree in nursing just a few months ago and will soon take her board exams to become a full-fledged nurse. After that she'll be working at the health clinic at Her Farm.
Namuna is our resident poet/philosopher and enjoys taking photographs, then writing short, but either poetic or deeply thoughtful lines to accompany her photos. She's a fast learner and I've most recently been teaching her how to set up and take portraits with some very sophisticated photographic equipment. Attached is the very first portraits she's taken by herself. To accomplish this she learned about studio lighting and full manual control of the camera including not only apertue and shutter speed but ISO and custom white balance as well.
We are proud of the progress she is showing as a young, female photographer and look forward to much more of her work in the future.
By Scott MacLennan | Project Leader and Photography Teacher
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