With the Polytechnic lecturers we discussed the student exam questions. This was a new experience for me, and very interesting. Some of the exams were quite difficult, I'd love to take those courses and grow intellectually. My exam is a bit out of the way, photojournalism hinges on a lot of practical skills as well as visual imagination, quite different from other topics the students take.
The other day I was in the bookstore again and picked up a hold lot of great art books. I had never read "The Last of the Nuba" by Leni Riefenstahl. Quite controversial. Brilliant photos, that's for sure. At the same time an old fashioned look at anthropology. Even then, in 1974, already longing for the times when the noble savage was unaffected by civilization. And a sexist look at the Nuba society, where she does not identify with the women, only with the men.

Working on the Save the Children Visual Guides for Mozambique. Interesting to have to work in Portuguese!

Student work

portrait of  a chips salesman by Gift Mandanda

Sunday and today I got some results from my students' photo stories. Some very interesting work there. It is their exam project that weighs heavily for their marks. Some had good work.
The stories range from street beggars to sports to their own lives.
The Sunday group are mature entry students, and some of them are very experienced journalists. That shows in the quality of work. For some of the regular students it is the first time they do any serious photography. Some have remarkable talent.