"Providence Girls' Primary School"

laundry drying in the sun, providence girls' primary school.

I went back, for the second time, to the primary school. Though things are certainly better than the first time I went there I'm still too overwhelmed with girls who want their picture taken to see how they actually spend their time when there isn't a white boy with a camera around. Hopefully I'll get to the point where some of them either ignore me or understand that I really do want to see the boring stuff they normally do, and I'll be able to take the pictures I want. Until then, and probably this is all I'll ever get, I have lots of pictures of primary school students making funny faces. At the very least it's great practice, they teach me a ton of words in chichewa (which i instantly forget), and everybody has a lot of fun.

this picture was published on saturday, april 25 2009. there is a full size version available. this picture was taken with a 24-70mm f/2.8 on a nikon d700. the settings when this was taken were: focal length: 24.0 mm; shutter speed: 1/125; iso: 200. this image has the following tags: malawi.