Tornadoes touch down in Massachusetts

I had to go cover the Tornadoes devastation in Western Massachusetts. I couldn't let such a story pass me by. Looks like I had a busy day today which began with me following Sarah Palin around Boston starting at 8am and ended with me photographing the Tornado torn Western Massachusetts at 8pm. These images are from Monson, Massachusetts that along with Springfield are among the hardest hit areas.

Casa Jackson Malnutrition Clinic

Today I spent the day at the Casa Jackson emergency recovery center for Malnourished children run by the God's Child Project. A workshop student is doing his project on the facility so I accompanied him there. This was by far the most difficult subject I've covered while in Guatemala. Some for the children are severely malnourished and the staff and volunteers do an amazing job caring for these children, rehabilitating them back to health. The God's Child project is always in need of Volunteers or Donations to help in their cause. For more information on how you can help take a look at the links below.
http://www.ana.org.gt/
http://www.gcpvolunteers.org/
http://casajackson.org/

Life in the Alotenango Dump

A special note regarding the image above, These are the hands of a young child no older than ten that works in the dump alongside his family.






This morning I accompanied two of the workshop students on a trip to the Alotenango dump which acts as Antigua's main dump. There are quite a few families that live and work on the grounds, they spend their time sifting through the garbage in search of valuables such as plastics and metals to later sell. I'll tell you as I told the students on our way back from the dump, for a growing photographer photographing such a scene, this was a maturing assignment and subject matter. Watching and photographing this woman with two children, one of which is tied onto her back, searching through the dump for plastic bottles is simply moving. It's difficult not to be affected by your subject matter and their surrounding enviroment but you must for the moment, put those those feelings aside and work on telling the story.