July 2009
Beginner to intermediate
300 pages
8h 7m
English
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Acknowledgments
Ask anyone who knows me and they’ll probably say that it’s not a good idea to be around when I’m working on a book, because I’ll invariably ask to make a photographic example of you. This book was no exception, and I’d like to thank Konrad Eek, Rossitza Jekova-Goza, Emily Clinton, Jeanne Phyllis Verity Parkhurst, Hans Wendl, Rick Poland, Regina Saisi, Joanna Silber, and Marz the cat for standing (or laying) there while they were turned into example images. A very special thanks to Janine Lessing for doing some boring grunt work that made the writing of this book much easier, and to Flavio Salazar for modeling for the cover.
Thanks, too, to the grandmothers of GAPA—Grandmothers Against Poverty and AIDS—an amazing NGO in South Africa composed of grandmothers who are trying to hold their families and communities together in the face of the AIDS pandemic while simultaneously raising their own grandchildren and fighting to improve the lives of people in townships all over South Africa. Some images of them (and their grandchildren) appear in Chapter 8 and Chapter 12. Check out www.gapa.org.za to learn more about this amazing organization.
Derrick Story did a fantastic job of tech editing this book, and many things that you will learn in these pages will be easier to understand thanks to his help. Finally, thanks to Colleen Wheeler for concocting the idea in the first place and for being so helpful in bending it into its current shape.
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