Return to Rwanda, June 2010
This week I have the enormously good fortune to be going back to Rwanda in central Africa on a week-long assignment. Ever since I visited that enigmatic little country that nestles in the mountains between Tanzania and Kenya to the east, and the Congo to the west, I couldn’t get the sights, smells and memories out of my head. So it’s exciting for me to have another chance to get amongst the people there and try again to photograph what it feels like.
While preparing this week for my return, I dug up a few of the many 100s of photos I’m still sorting through from my March 2010 trip. While there were many visual elements to my discovery of Africa – wildlife, flora, vistas – by far the people were the most fascinating. Which is saying something considering how generally enthralling everything in Africa can be for a newcomer.
In this set are some of the people I encountered on a trip round the country, including a village of ‘pygmy’ people, more correctly known as the Twa, a boy washing by Lake Kivu in the west of the country, and some schoolchildren we encountered along the road in Gisenyi, the well-known city on the Congolese border.
Enjoy!
beautiful work! Opreation smile is outstanding. Just happened accross you as I was checking members of Vis Soc.
All the best, Pete