I couldn’t take photos out and about in Juba as you need a permit for photography in South Sudan. We could take photos inside the workshop so here are a couple of me at work and the lovely participants.
and with my fellow facilitator at a restaurant on the banks of the Blue Nile
I kept seeing little things that I wanted to capture and share – so I decided to list them and try to provide some flavour of this lovely new country.
I would love to have photos of the school children walking to school in their crisp white shirts and dark green shorts or shirts;
of the young children playing with a ball outside their house;
of the babies carried in a brightly coloured cloth on their mother’s back;
of the women walking back from the market with bundles balanced on their heads;
of the wonderful bright skirts and wraps that many women wear;
of the contrast of many younger women in very western (and brightly coloured) clothes;
of the group of old men sitting on plastic chairs in the shade of a tree, laughing and sharing stories;
of the men sitting outside a house smoking hookah pipes;
of the motorcycle with 3 young men sitting on it as it weaves its way through the traffic;
of the amazing ruts in the earth roads;
of the bizarrely contrasting pristine tarmac roads shown on a large advertising hoarding;
of the designs painted in white on the large rocks found at the corners of major roads;
of the ducks and ducklings scavenging beside the road;
at the group of goats that roams around near our accommodation;
of the woven bamboo fences around many houses;
of the groups of traditional mud huts - both round ones and rectangle ones;
at the lush tall trees (when I asked our driver what kind of tree it was he said ‘just a tree’ meaning no fruit);
of the eagles gliding on the thermals overhead;
of the red mountains outside of town;
of the lovely smiling people that I have met everywhere I go.
Now that would have been a photo heavy post!
