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GEOFF OLIVER BUGBEE

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Fetching water from afar. Everyday work for millions of women and children. Sawla, Ghana, 2018. #preciousresource #drought
Mudugudu settlement housing in Kigali, Rwanda, 2007.
An honor to have exhibited some of my global #blindness work as part of the "Healthcare in Conflict Settings: Mitigating Suffering, Offering Hope” exhibition in Doha, Qatar. The exhibition showcased the work of eight #photographers working with Qatar Red Crescent, Médecins Sans Frontières, Al Jazeera, and myself with Orbis International. The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) is an initiative of the Qatar Foundation and they’ve recently slated healthcare in conflict zones as a core topic featured in WISH’s biennial Doha summit coming up November 13-14. #savingsight #changinglives @orbisintl @jdbrandtmd #msf @doctorswithoutborders #aljazeera @qatarcreatingvision #tbt
On left, one of those instantly recognizable iconic images. As a kiddo, I gazed inspired at this 1985 @natgeo cover image that @stevemccurryofficial made in a refugee camp near Peshawar the year before. And then I stumbled upon a dead ringer of that very photograph, painted meticulously on a canvas, hanging out in the stacks of a humble artist’s street stall in Ho Chi Minh City last year. Down to the tack sharp specular catchlights of the window reflected in her striking green Afghan eyes, this Vietnamese painter more than nailed it. One of those times where hindsight scolds you fiercely for not tucking the "work of a work of art" under your arm only to later figure out how to ship the thing home. But really, the point is the juxtaposition. Photographers aren't immune to occasional derivative tendencies in their work. Impressions sometimes burrow within us and subconsciously resurface in our own pictures. Similar to revisiting an indelible riff or phrase while playing music, I sometimes find I drift to making images that I’ve somewhere seen before. Like this day for instance in 2001, from an out-patient eye hospital ward in Lumbini, Nepal. It is not the afghan girl picture by far, but the same essence in her eyes drew me in to make her portrait.
What a journey this is. #daddydiaries @mrbeetlebug @parekhbugbee
Sidontenge, Ghana | 04.25.2018
Samanbo, Ghana | 04.25.2018 . Martina with goat.
Sidontenge, Ghana | 04.24.2018 . Mwinliere prepares a staple porridge of cassava and sorghum in her kitchen.
The stuff of legend, ladies and gentlemen. On this Earth Day I’ll pause to celebrate illumination in all the many forms that it comes to us. Our planet’s relationship to light, the consistent power of the sun, our dependence on its precious resource. May it continue to burn bright for us and dapple through our windows each morning to keep us inspired. #earthday2018 🌞🌍
Detail of the ancient Mayan citadel of Tikal in the rainforests of northern #Guatemala. The civilization flourished between 200 and 850 A.D. and was later mysteriously abandoned. Tikal, Guatemala, 2006. I can still hear the howler monkeys at dawn waking up the jungle.