PhotoMalawi

I'm back now from a trip to Lilongwe and Machinga, with Frank from FD. We made photos and interviews for JTIs Inside Magazine. Interesting work. We left Blantyre at 5 am because Frank had some work to finish the night before. He had worked deep into the night, so I drove most of the way while he rested. In Lilongwe we did portraits and photos of the factory. They keep it as clean as possible, but the tobacco dust got to my head anyway. I was tired pretty soon, and I kept thinking it was the tobacco dust. But when I was home, this morning I tried the exercise bike, and found they I am terribly out of shape. So that played a big part. Im going to exercise, to keep my photos up to standard. I have to be able to walk around all day with my equipment on my back, and kneel and climb and what have you. I want to be a photographer, I better keep myself in shape. Maybe my age is also catching up with me!
Anyway, I love portraits, and I love industrial photography, I kept Rodchenko in mind.
Then yesterday we visited JTI Liwonde. We started with a tree nursery, which is quite photogenic. Then we saw a live barn (barn made of live trees!) under construction: it will take three years for the trees to grow big enough. And a farmer who managed to invest in a shop in Machinga.
Today I will teach again at the Poly, and photograph a meeting, here in town.