
A woman works on a hand loom at Wawoto Kacel, Gulu. Wawoto Kacel, a small centre run by the Comboni Missionaries from Italy, has the purpose of teaching formerly vulnerable or homeless people skills so that they can make a living. Most of the products made are sold in Italy and the US, though there are also some stockists in Uganda.
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been constantly wanting to do something on this blog. I’ve been in meetings with new clients, and been shooting pop stars, and been chuckling at this pie chart, and my work has been published in a few new places which is always good, but I haven’t taken many images which I can post on the blog yet. But they’re coming, and I’m going to do an investigation into Ugandan sculpture art. Brace yourselves for that, because it will include an image of the sculpture which, in my eyes at least, must take the title of “worst sculpture ever punched out of concrete”. I’ll be shooting the pics either today or tomorrow, so get ready. In the meantime, here’s some fun:
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