Children of Uganda

100Eyes/360 Degree
Photography
Workshops

Stephen Shames/Andy Levin

 Workshop Descripton

This workshop will provide you with an unprecedented look at how

AIDS, war, and poverty have affected children in Uganda, with an
emphasis on the positive developments in the lives of Ugandan chil-
dren. Working with LEAD Uganda, a leadership program created
by photographer Stephen Shames, you will have an opportunity to
contribute to the effort by documenting the daily life of Ugnadan chil-
dren.

The focus of the workshop will be a two day assignment specially

developed for you in which you will accompany a child to their vil-
lage and document their daily life. You may go the home of a child
living in slum area, or document the lives of child laborers, or so-
meome living in an IDP (internally displaced persons) refugee camp,
or perhaps photograph a child headed family a, family that has been
ravaged by AIDS, which scientests think first developed in Uganda.

Advanced students and professionals will have an opportunity to cre-

ate their own assignments with our guidance.

Each photographer will have a Ugandan child as a fixer and guide, a

great chance for you to make new friends as well as creating an im-
portant photographic document that we hope will increase awareness
of the good things that are happening in Uganda today.

This workshop has no portfolio requirement, and we anticipate a cap

at 15 students. Should enrollment merit we all add instructors to as-
sist us.
Details:
Arrange to be in Kampala at the hotel by Saturday afternoon, May
1st, 2010 or earlier. We will get together for dinner that evening.
The workshop concludes on Sunday May 9th. Of course you are
free to arrive in Uganda earlier and stay later but we will not have
any official activities until the 1st.
If you are travelling from the United States it is suggested that you
leave on the previous Wednesday, arriving in London Thursday
morning, departing that evening and arriving in Uganda Friday
night. That will give you a day to get acclimatized to Uganda
before we get started.
Entebbe is the nearest airport to Kampala, Uganda. From the US,
you will connect in London or Brussels. Expect to pay from $1,800
to $2,200, round trip, through London.
We are now making arrangements with the Speke Hotel in Kampa-
la a first class hotel with a conference room and an Internet center,
plus fourgood restaurants on site, and a Forex bureau (to change
money) inside the hotel. Rooms have TV, air conditioning, and
room service. You will have to reserve them rooms by either fax,
phone or email. Details on the hotel reservations will be forth-
coming as we get closer to the workshop date. You can check out
the Speke at http://www.spekehotel.com.
We will advise you on visa requirement as the time approaches--if
you are represent a newspaper or magazine it may be necessary to
get permission from the Ugandan Government as well. We will
advise and expedite this for you.
Fee for this workshop is $2000 USD. This is for the workshop
only and does not include transportation to Uganda, hotel or meals,
with the exception of our opening and closing dinners. In addition
we expect each student to tip the Ugandan child and family that
will be your fixer and guide. The suggested donation is $100. We
strongly suggest that you purchase travel insurance and make certain
that your health coverage extends to Uganda. We do not provide
travel or health insurance.
We encourage you to bring digital camera equipment and a non-
descript camera bag. If you wish to shoot film, plan to bring it home
for processing. We strongly suggest that you avoid large camera
bags and intrusive long lenses. Please leave any ostentatious equip-
ment at home! Bring a plain bag for your camera and loose fitting
comfortable clothes.
If you want feedback on your work from our instructors you must
shoot digital.
Check with the manufacturer or read the manual to see if your charger
and computer works on 220-volts, which is what is used in Uganda.
(The US is 110 volts.) The electrical outlets in Uganda also require
an English style, three-pronged adapter. Bring DVDs, cables for
transferring data to your laptop, and your laptop with the appropriate
software. We stongly suggest that you have a copy of Adobe Light-
room and some version of Photoshop. Most PC laptop and Macintosh
PowerBook computers made today automatically adapt to 220.
We will have a digital projector for classroom work and group ses-
sions. One on ones with Stephen Shames and Andy Levin will be on
a laptop. We also strongly suggest that students share work with each
other and assist in editing each others work. This is an integral aspect
of the 360 Degree Workshop experience.
To sign up and for more information on this workshop please call me
at 504 701-0961, or use the form at http://www.100eyes.org/sign-up-
uganda/
Stephen Shames creates award winning photo essays on social issues for
magazines, books, foundations, advocacy organizations, and art mu-
seums. He is also the founder of LEAD Uganda, an NGO operating in
Uganda providing financial support so talented Ugandan children can at-
tend school. You can see his work at: http://www.stephenshames.com/

Andy Levin is an award winning documentary photographer and the edi-

tor of 100eyes, an online magazine presenting the best in new documen-
tary photography. Levin is a former Life Magazine contributing pho-
tographer and was a finalist for the Eugene Smith Grant for documentary
photography in 2006 for his work on the environment. You can see his
work at http://www.andylevin.com and at http://www.100eyes.

The Stephen Shames Foundation is a non-profit organization that col-

lects donations to educate AIDS orphans, child soldiers, sex slaves, child
laborers, street kids, siblings in child-headed families and other vulner-
able children in Uganda.

Concern for the Future is an indigenous NGO (non-profit) run by Direc-

tor, Monica Nankoma a staff of five, and a dozen volunteers. Concern
runs the LEAD Uganda initiative. Concern looks after the children. Our
goal is to locate children living on the edges of society and mold them
into leaders.

Concern for the Future's staff, all native Ugandans, find bright, motivated
AIDS orphans, child soldiers, children in refugee camps, and other vul-
nerable youth in Uganda who want to go to college but can't because of
poverty, AIDS, and war.