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A Beautiful Anarchy
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A Beautiful Anarchy

by David duChemin
December 2016
Beginner content levelBeginner
184 pages
2h 32m
English
Rocky Nook
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THIS MIGHT NOT WORK

I took a forced hiatus in 2011 from my work as a photographer for humanitarian organizations, the result of an accident in Italy that left me unable to walk. The last assignment I did, in the far reaches of northern Kenya among nomadic Rendille, Turkana, and Samburu tribes, changed my life.

As I write this chapter it’s January 2013 and I’m on my way back to Kenya, my head full of ideas and the expectations I should know well enough not to have. I have all kinds of notions about what my work—my resulting photographs—will be like, which sits uneasily beside the knowledge that what I will accomplish, and what images I return with, will not be that. Whatever I create there will come from that heady, addictive mix of my own hopes ...

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