https://aweland.co.uk/storm daily 0.75 2025-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1757425264787-6GGVPINJ0K07XSSKK8KG/Squarespace+Video.png Video-Dromed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1757425264787-6GGVPINJ0K07XSSKK8KG/Squarespace+Video.png Video-Dromed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1665179257671-0FR6GANA52BWS6O89OWQ/image-asset.jpeg Video-Dromed - Unorthodox. Trailer. 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1676637950372-EADRPE1X3JE76BM3K8R1/image.jpg Video-Dromed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1595517837180-EBC4ZEDBRLM8WGKTUA32/Stowe+%2810+of+11%29.jpg Video-Dromed War and Priest. Winner Jury Prize SIMA 2023 A documentary film examining how a new religion in Georgia is utilized as a loophole to save young men from conscription into the Army. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/5f16d9deadff447a4dda4b54/5f199d1844c723564fe455cd/1757947224634/ Video-Dromed - War and Priest - Trailer - Winner Jury Prize SIMA 2023 See SIMA Winners 2023 at: https://simaawards.org/2023-winners/ Watch the short version of War and Priest at: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1595522894246-1WKLJGBZNH0WVEGAJGFG/CH1408698.jpg Video-Dromed Unleashing Youth Power. International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM 2020. A story of one child’s voice shouting at the purveyors of mutilation. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/5f16d9deadff447a4dda4b54/5f19a28e9bc50d3d16d371b0/1757947162604/ Video-Dromed - Saada's Story. 2019-2020 Save the Children UK. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1604923431141-4VOX8JGJQQPN79ICQ61N/Screenshot+2020-11-09+at+12.01.43.png Video-Dromed - Being Hijra (being transgender in Bangladesh) Part of the Bede (river gypsy) people in Bangladesh, a community of Transgender people fight against chronic discrimination. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/5f16d9deadff447a4dda4b54/5fa92f0557ab6273a4bf2f39/1757947162804/ Video-Dromed - Being Hijra - Stills-Film Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1604924329366-ZGPH8MMJZM1ZMVAPBYUW/Screenshot+2020-11-09+at+12.17.48.png Video-Dromed - Syrian children harrowing stories - Save the Chidlren and The Independent Newspaper Short Experimental stills, animation film capturing the voices of children caught in war and the horror that they experience. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/5f16d9deadff447a4dda4b54/5fa932c11cc23f3fa88d84af/1757947162870/ Video-Dromed - Syrian Children's Voices - Short Animation film https://aweland.co.uk/projects daily 0.75 2022-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1595421451100-B254SYCS7Y61CFJJJ8K3/Forced+Freedom+%2818+of+21%29.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1595612163727-Z4BTNZN5XL85UMP0DUHI/AweBangkokPost1+copy.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1595612228562-OL1R8J82Q4K7TKCN9A5G/Awe11thohio.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1639753577102-SZ86JPEALKM98DSVW1S3/Screenshot%2B2021-12-17%2Bat%2B14.53.02.jpg Projects See the Interactive website below showing the journey of a vaccine from the city to the border between Ethiopia and Somalia. A wilderness land of drought and famine; where people reside affected by environmental and political disasters. Read, listen and watch their stories here: https://stories.savethechildren.org.uk/GSK-in-ethiopia/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1640957206033-VJQXZJZPBAWA1PMW9RS4/Screenshot%2B2021-12-31%2Bat%2B13.16.27.jpg Projects Save the Children has been documenting the stories of children living on the frontline of the climate crisis, sending world-renowned photographers to Cambodia, Australia, and Pakistan to learn about their lives. Once the images were sent back to the UK, my partner and I started the process of working in darkrooms and science laboratories; adding chemicals to the negatives, the same pollutants that were affecting the locations where the children lived, creating a representation of the environmental impact these children were suffering. To see the full essays go to: https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2021/nov/01/children-surviving-the-climate-crisis-in-pictures https://aweland.co.uk/awe-world daily 0.75 2020-09-08 https://aweland.co.uk/awe-world/tibet-2005-2008-rxmxz-a4cnt-37r34-l7kkk-s8t2y-fwemk-pgeba-kpwje-j8g89-marhd-tr3df-y3p3r-4nskx-27rnt monthly 0.5 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599830630326-L8NKIEJZCV8W79PX7B3A/bamawewoods.jpg Awe-World - Awe-World - 2000-2025 The Holy Potala Palace built in 1649, now surrounded by Chinese hoardings celebrating the arrival of trains full of Chinese tourists. Tibetans walk around the palace trying to maintain their spiritual activities amongst the horror. https://aweland.co.uk/awe-world/tibet-2005-2008-rxmxz-a4cnt-37r34-l7kkk-s8t2y-fwemk-pgeba-kpwje-j8g89-marhd-tr3df-y3p3r monthly 0.5 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599825056607-XUSIZB525PGP0HQV7XHK/9C2A3291.JPG Awe-World - Caucasus, Georgia This is Georgie, a young business man, trying to start the first ever sex toy shop online in the country. He has avoided conscription by becoming a Girchi priest. He dreams of a Georgia where even priest can order a dildo from him (which they do), he wants a country where anyone can choose to be whatever they want to be. Hope spring eternal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599825088882-O2G8JUX8D01FR63LF4RF/9C2A3459.JPG Awe-World - Caucasus, Georgia At the protest the people wanted their government to not court the Russians, an odd harmony between protesters, police and army occurred, even though they were being shot at, the protesters still helped the ones firing at them. They only saw Russia as the common enemy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599825122529-M7STVTJCANAWI4DB8CMI/9C2A3562.JPG Awe-World - Caucasus, Georgia The presence of the press was outnumbered by citizen journalism and the event was up and off into the social media sphere before I could edit and upload a picture, the days of the photojournalist from afar are numbered, and rightly so. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599825229263-2DJANUGFVR6WN7A5HSCM/awegeogia.jpg Awe-World - Caucasus, Georgia Within any event, one look, expression or gesture can summaries the story of any occurrence, this the decisive moment I saw, not classically formatted but it contains the essence of great narrative. I know him, you have known him, you can relate to him, we are either him or the man-without. https://aweland.co.uk/awe-world/tibet-2005-2008-rxmxz-a4cnt-37r34-l7kkk-s8t2y-fwemk-pgeba-kpwje-j8g89-marhd-tr3df-y3p3r-4nskx monthly 0.5 2020-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599829086605-XHTUTUR4NPL89PHXFCCF/9C2A4441.JPG Awe-World - The Un-United States, Ohio to Vegas The Oregon centre celebrates the arrival of the Pilgrims and the trek across the States to settle the land and start a new world in God’s name. Shame the manifest destiny that gripped those early pioneers did not incorporate how best to treat the people that had lived there before their arrived. The world is built on those who came from Europe to invade and this set the scene for how we live today, with those that believe they are masters and destined for better, built on the devastation they laid, took and neglected. The man-without still holds our futures in the balance. Stay tuned in or they’ll tune us out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599829153576-V94V2GJDF5NAXLMLW8RM/9C2A4774.JPG Awe-World - The Un-United States, Ohio to Vegas The 11th Ohio ride, desiring to be in the past, escaping to a time they think was better, yet they ride on false memories and herald greatness from their forefathers actions. But they shiver coldly when they see how far we have fallen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599829192141-25972TWAXXWCVU7FF972/9C2A4949.JPG Awe-World - The Un-United States, Ohio to Vegas The small town of the States are slowly vanishing, the local cinemas empty, the towns void of atmosphere, the streaming online cultures will vanquish these towns into history to be visited only in VR. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599829237119-XK6LE7U7V2PV2BDPEGWV/9C2A5084.JPG Awe-World - The Un-United States, Ohio to Vegas Vegas, the streets tell the story of the freakshow that draws hordes of without-gamblers wanting to get a fix of fantasy, sex, chancing and glitz before Monday call’s them back to slumberville. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599829279947-XCAUIZO5P7BCV6G2JY5O/9C2A5094.JPG Awe-World - The Un-United States, Ohio to Vegas Such romance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599829335656-A3HSUFKILB933PNDC7EU/awevagas.jpg Awe-World - The Un-United States, Ohio to Vegas The showgirls walk up and down all night, supplementing their day jobs for an easy buck, they entice the hordes of male-withouters to enter the casino’s to get closer to that chance of 1 million dollars and freedom. https://aweland.co.uk/awe-world/tibet-2005-2008-rxmxz-a4cnt-37r34-l7kkk-s8t2y-fwemk-pgeba-kpwje-j8g89-marhd-tr3df monthly 0.5 2020-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599820104178-FTBCK8MMXUXX0886865L/aweethi.jpg Awe-World - Ethiopia The children meet at school to plan their protest actions and how best to show their disdain for FGM. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599820148548-BCD11LF1VQTPEN74K8Y0/aweethi5.jpg Awe-World - Ethiopia She is the face of the campaign and started the process of protest, she is 11 years old and prepared to risk all too help. Hail GenZ, they are taking the future on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599820193643-4LFPWF6OC5QAWCY6Q3M7/aweethhi4.jpg Awe-World - Ethiopia Young boys are standing up to their forefathers barbarous beliefs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599820242566-4TDSBFPSO7YLUA33ZNX8/aweeth2.jpg Awe-World - Ethiopia This mother had lost 2 children to diphtheria and whooping cough in the last year. She had 5 children, they lived in a basic tented house, migrated to where there was water and since being vaccinated her children have survived thus far. I left these people knowing I would never see them again apart from in the media-unreality-ether the practitioner tries not to drown in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599820289627-JBO7VBFHITDL7FDDOFC0/aweethi3.jpg Awe-World - Ethiopia Her daughter showed me her pride and joy, a baby goat, which was her best friend. The moments we shared becomes some odd frozen tableaux that will exist on the social and media platforms without her ever seeing herself. She becomes campaign iconography; destined to either be swiped past, or she will tweak those that can donate to make a difference. How did it come to this form of needing to plead to the public to save those that are no different than ourselves, just circumstance and a lacking world system means they can never turn on a tap for hot water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599822171680-BC74TV2F3N9TGCM45Z41/Screen+Shot+2020-09-11+at+12.02.02.png Awe-World - Ethiopia To see cold chain film go to: https://twitter.com/gavi/status/1236758589550690304?s=20 https://aweland.co.uk/awe-world/tibet-2005-2008-rxmxz-a4cnt-37r34-l7kkk-s8t2y-fwemk-pgeba-kpwje-j8g89-marhd monthly 0.5 2020-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599754671502-JRG2K5OAUW0NEHDQSPMN/IMG-20161123-WA0003.jpg Awe-World - Vietnam and Laos – Mekong River We set sail up the junction to document the problems occurring to the communities living along the Mekong. We would encounter, flash floods, river bandits and thousands of water snakes that came out in the rain. Your typical media workshop! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599754689276-RYVLVXWPSCYD3JSAE1V6/IMG-20161123-WA0004.jpg Awe-World - Vietnam and Laos – Mekong River The perils of working in country needed to be surmounted by bare foot, bailing out boats, and cameras wrapped in bags to float next to us, each time our boats sank. This is my lecture hall. https://aweland.co.uk/awe-world/tibet-2005-2008-rxmxz-a4cnt-37r34-l7kkk-s8t2y-fwemk-pgeba-kpwje-j8g89 monthly 0.5 2020-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599818685256-2WJ5LNFXTQPQU9BGG5I6/cuba2.jpg Awe-World - Cuba Walking Havana at night, doors remain open, Cuban music fills the air, families congregate and people interact, a buzz; the city hum’s with a sense of harmony amongst the poverty. Che and the revolution adorn walls, pictures of him stare down at me at every turn. I used to teach about his iconic portrayal in imagery and its dissemination into pop culture, now I was part of the need to connect to the spirit of fighting against the man-without. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599818731400-SLZ4XA6B8CNOSXZRY1HH/cuba1.jpg Awe-World - Cuba The city people exist with the paradox of the “with and without” which is startling, tourism brings in the wealthy cruise ships brimming with the disposable withouters, ladened down with American dollars ready to purchase their slice of history. The locals drift by and are part of the aesthetic, as if they are fragments for photo-shoot, I click anyway, knowing better. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599818780596-0VVWXKXUGZURYGUZ3OV1/cuba3.jpg Awe-World - Cuba You can conjure up a 50’s neon sign, but do you dare to follow the glinting arrows that take you into the darken alley ways that lead to the real Cuba? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599818845530-YG3B6G8SD0AWXF90BDFQ/cuba4.jpg Awe-World - Cuba It’s a time capsule and the people tell me they feel like they are trapped between their heroic past of rebuking America’s influence, but now desiring cherry pie futures. https://aweland.co.uk/awe-world/tibet-2005-2008-rxmxz-a4cnt-37r34-l7kkk-s8t2y-fwemk-pgeba-kpwje monthly 0.5 2020-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599651134953-KP4BPRVZX8R7O7ZPXXN3/6C5A8312.JPG Awe-World - Namibia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599651200229-ILSBLSQJFTQR1D5L60MJ/6C5A8790.JPG Awe-World - Namibia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599651276758-SS1MMWUL5L000GA9VTG9/6C5A9214.JPG Awe-World - Namibia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599651319717-HVR13F4JNDUMCJYNHJ5K/6M4A8670+2.JPG Awe-World - Namibia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599651354253-8ND71JNC1D1FMB1YSSWI/6M4A8759+2.JPG Awe-World - Namibia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599651392073-WYJYFVBT23VR729OCMSS/6M4A9191+2.JPG Awe-World - Namibia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599651441467-FOK1ASJDG6CC9FEXIM4L/6M4A9405.JPG Awe-World - Namibia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599651540326-D6QANNW07ANVRJK7I2ZN/6M4A9556.JPG Awe-World - Namibia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599651572877-40F6VR1WMJR78P4W1ZAZ/6M4A9944.JPG Awe-World - Namibia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599651610798-NL5DNBYBDV0YQD9OJ26Q/6M4A9969.JPG Awe-World - Namibia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599651664978-1GEALL4E11SF1OKTIS9L/Stowe+%286+of+11%29.jpg Awe-World - Namibia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599651701636-T1L72PJXPVD45G4QNOMR/thumb_6C5A9365_1024.jpg Awe-World - Namibia Always come prepared with blue plastic flip flops, and a strong gaze and pose, to ward off any razor toothed invader into your camp. Failing that throw the flippers at them and climb up into your tent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599652402719-C63P2RRSO3AIS3YG5FQR/6M4A9932.jpg Awe-World - Namibia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599652430603-VK8QD1WE4NHIGFG90J02/6M4A9814.jpg Awe-World - Namibia Just how it should be, asleep while i steal a memory from the 4by4, with the engine running… https://aweland.co.uk/awe-world/tibet-2005-2008-rxmxz-a4cnt-37r34-l7kkk-s8t2y-fwemk-pgeba monthly 0.5 2020-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599586818411-L69M88OEUZGT57MQW7IT/6M4A4279.jpg Awe-World - The Stans - Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan A five day ride over the mountains and into the land that truly time forgot to Song-kul lake, Kyrgyzstan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599586878095-RWM4GCBH3KRGT37E7567/stans.jpg Awe-World - The Stans - Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan The Pamir Highway traversing through Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan, a road with sheer mile drops, looming mountains of cold and altitudes where no smoker should breath. Surviving the journey, is only half the pleasure. The other half is wanting to come back the way one came. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599586908340-L7SFATRK6TGN4WKOMZ36/thumb_6M4A5049_1024.jpg Awe-World - The Stans - Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan The Hindu Kush, a village kid, takes me high above his house so I can see into my future, he informs me there be bandits over the horizon, I wink at him and tell him to warn them to be ready. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599586946722-CEDIUFY4JHLLY2QSTF78/Stowe+%284+of+11%29.jpg Awe-World - The Stans - Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan She is not defined by her gender, she is just a horse person. She rides to help her family herd their animals, they are nomadic and follow the good weather and winds and then sell their stock. She is saving to move to the city and study tourism and leave the sessional lifestyle that has defined her families living for generations. Her younger sisters awaits in the cow-wings to take over. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599587010599-98P8YUP2MJR45FO6HZKZ/IMG_2082.JPG Awe-World - The Stans - Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan The eagle hunter and his best friend sit and watch the land for signs of life, a rabbit for lunch. They live in a symbiosis with the land and sky. The eagle could fly away but “he sticks around for the company” the hunter tells me. They are living out their manhoods together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599587072523-OWK3DW3XD0R1R5VJMJBE/6M4A2211.JPG Awe-World - The Stans - Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan I stick a GoPro on the eagle, chase after him, as it contemplates if I’m a worthy snack. I show the bird how he looks on camera, his eyes glint at me and seem to smile, he winks and is gone again to perform for the film. Such a pro. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599587119526-2HRUULHO5LKLORXGX1FE/6M4A5125.JPG Awe-World - The Stans - Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan Rutom Masain is the last Tajik traditional music maker. He lives upon a hill looking out over the valley he grew up in. He has no apprentice to teach his skills to. He exists in ever instrument he makes, when he plucks a string it invokes history that is vanishing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599587177417-H7GT1MW1PTZCJZP8697Z/6M4A5113.JPG Awe-World - The Stans - Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan Hw stares off into his past, awaiting someone to teach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599587216224-9GXF2ZPUVBXV419FU0ZD/IMG_0052.jpg Awe-World - The Stans - Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan I met her in a market place, she was scurrying around, picking up plastic and rushing off. I asked her what she was doing, she was earning $1 a day for 3 hours work after school. Why, to look after her sick mother and her younger brother. She is now sponsored and studies to become a doctor. Sometimes you have to put down the camera and intervene. https://aweland.co.uk/awe-world/tibet-2005-2008-rxmxz-a4cnt-37r34-l7kkk-s8t2y-fwemk monthly 0.5 2020-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599585988829-2X4YJIMBR8MQA6O5VX73/IMG_2202.JPG Awe-World - Mosquito coast, Honduras Teresa, freedom fighter, had here house set on fire, her children fleeing just in time. She is melancholy on the surface, but bristles under, but without ways to stop those that pillage she must endure. Imagine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599586067157-JG9F77FO2FU6R4QVV94O/IMG_2023v2.jpg Awe-World - Mosquito coast, Honduras The beach families are left homeless to watch as their land is built upon, a calmness furnishes the Garifuna to stay relaxed. My fury knows no bound and the day dreams of ending the Man-Without fill my endless travels. https://aweland.co.uk/awe-world/tibet-2005-2008-rxmxz-a4cnt-37r34-l7kkk monthly 0.5 2020-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599573742682-YP7L4JQAOPWPOO8QHVFY/_MG_5435.jpg Awe-World - Sabina House School and Atiac Refugee centre - Uganda The refugees from South Sudan had fled the war, to arrive in a camp that was plagued by the LRA (The Lord's Resistance Army) stealing their children, this was the camps official mender of garments, one man to fix a thousand rips. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599573787286-FROF92H94V2Y8JEQD0R2/_MG_5936.JPG Awe-World - Sabina House School and Atiac Refugee centre - Uganda He was kidnapped by the LRA, but escaped, when they enter the camp, the children run for their lives, or they’ll end up child soldiers, coming back to steal themselves in the future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599573823853-0A5DCGYJPGBB3NT19N3D/_MG_5946.JPG Awe-World - Sabina House School and Atiac Refugee centre - Uganda The midwives have little medicine or facilities to treat the birthing, there was 1 midwives for 25 thousand people and no hospital for 200 miles. She was the school of birth itself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599573869875-XF2JV97FICGU78TBGD06/Stowe+%286a+of+11%29.jpg Awe-World - Sabina House School and Atiac Refugee centre - Uganda Such joy, a radio, a football and we played till the stars came out. Bliss. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599574424464-IMDH2WDUR68DKI9VU4KR/IMG_6008.JPG Awe-World - Sabina House School and Atiac Refugee centre - Uganda My first empowerment workshop, we were all so young and grew up into opposite lives. But still I have contact with those that made it through and into adulthood. https://aweland.co.uk/awe-world/tibet-2005-2008-rxmxz-a4cnt-37r34-l7kkk-s8t2y monthly 0.5 2020-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599583631526-ZVZIDELMHSLAH08Y8CIP/IMG_9163.jpg Awe-World - Colombo, Sri Lanka - The Nawam Maha Perahera The elephants dressmaker. His family has for 3 generations cut, sown and blinged the royal robes for these kings and queens to adorn, one man’s craft is to make splendour and he hopes this informs the spectator to respect more than they do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599583706935-ZPNA8RQQ5ACC334BAQWG/IMG_9463.JPG Awe-World - Colombo, Sri Lanka - The Nawam Maha Perahera His family has for generations protected the elephants in their charge, “proud to be akin to an animal” he says “with wisdom that is echoed between us”. He and she have knowledge from cradle to grave, they both the same age and grown up together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599583761522-OEI3FKI16BBVPU204P90/IMG_9413.jpg Awe-World - Colombo, Sri Lanka - The Nawam Maha Perahera Slowly the morphing from beast to beauty is accepted by the beauty that we beasts must have our entertainment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599584243434-6GK8S0MHHN6AKORWTM4F/IMG_9714.JPG Awe-World - Colombo, Sri Lanka - The Nawam Maha Perahera The crowd. The joyous moment for any stills practitioner. To walk up to and face the audience directly. To stand brazen and take just 1 frame and walk away. This should all occur in Bresson moment, quickly as, so only those alert will stare down the barrel and stay connected to you forever. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599584288031-H3BARTWGL1GQHFFHNBXC/IMG_9078.jpg Awe-World - Colombo, Sri Lanka - The Nawam Maha Perahera Behold. Splendour and horror astride each other. Click. https://aweland.co.uk/awe-world/tibet-2005-2008-rxmxz-a4cnt-37r34 monthly 0.5 2020-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599569909976-J9YBFBT1FHQPSG8Z8R08/IMG_9001.JPG Awe-World - Tanglag, Northern Luzon The community are pinned in by the relentless pressure from the army, who hide in the darkness. People from the village travel in groups to try and resit being apprehended and vanished. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599569998308-518IQOJAVB8WJWV4YYOZ/IMG_9667.JPG Awe-World - Tanglag, Northern Luzon The journey to Tanglag takes one into the cloud mountains, then a trek of a day into forests that hide away this community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599570069509-X22EDUBSB1KY1GZ4L39Q/IMG_9541.JPG Awe-World - Tanglag, Northern Luzon The jungle is claiming back the village, slowly encroaching on the villagers whom are weary of the monsters that lurk just beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599570120776-NPXXDFJR0CEQ5L4PHDHL/IMG_9219.JPG Awe-World - Tanglag, Northern Luzon Slowly one becomes part of the cause, you start to live as they do, fear, dream and care as they do. The camera often is the barrier that keeps your emotions at bay, but once put down you start to understand the stories more. My water buffalo buddies soon became my best confidants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599570160182-GKISNGNIJ5B44TCIE3P3/IMG_9007.JPG Awe-World - Tanglag, Northern Luzon The village is a haven of wonder and beauty, surrounded by lush pristine jungle, paradise going to be lost to those that would strip the forest and its lands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599570266360-MT3G1SQQZMO3TOHXW7K2/IMG_8977.JPG Awe-World - Tanglag, Northern Luzon I often dream of what has happened to those I encountered, befriended, supported. One tries to keep contact, promise a return, but time and space moves the past further out of reach. Do they ever find peace? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599570311636-YJ3TWTJBIWU7YF3GMJ6J/IMG_0194.JPG Awe-World - Tanglag, Northern Luzon The elders, look at the camera, knowing the story will not save them. They have that calmness that comes from tolerance, born from maintaining patience which is cherished as and held onto as the weapon that they can control. https://aweland.co.uk/awe-world/tibet-2005-2008-5w23m monthly 0.5 2020-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599569442925-PMVXUR527144FW7C7VJN/Mugabeposter.jpg Awe-World - Zimbabwe The film was selected for film festival worldwide, and is still on the SIMA (Social Impact Media Awards) touring circuit. https://aweland.co.uk/awe-world/tibet-2005-2008 monthly 0.5 2020-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16d8686128c42ad691082e/1599497762862-W4RZDBHND0LYV5K2Z8DF/TIBET+%285+of+5%29.jpg Awe-World - Tibet 2005 - 2008 The Holy Potala Palace built in 1649, now surrounded by Chinese hoardings celebrating the arrival of trains full of Chinese tourists. 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