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#19 Amina Mohamed: Love and passion to make things better
Amina Mohamed is a photographer as well as the founder of Triple F Photo Tours and Cameras For Girls.
Triple F Photo Tours is a photo-tour company that showcases the beauty of Uganda while supporting Cameras For Girls - an organization that supplies woman studying journalism in Uganda with cameras and the knowledge on how to use them so that they can use photography as a tool to tell the stories that matter to them.
www.triplefphototours.ca
Moments to listen for:
Connect as a human - 19:42
Before I pick up my camera, I will always make eye contact and always ask for permission. I might not know the language because there are 54 different languages and 54 different tribes. I rely on my people in Uganda to ask for me 'can she take your picture.' and if it's a no, it's a no. Then I graciously thank them and walk away, right? More often than not they'll say 'yes, absolutely.' Because it's how you approach it, and how you have respect for them. Because life in our eyes is very different than in theirs. So I think that goes not just for Uganda, but anywhere you travel. It's that having respect for what you do as a photographer, versus how you portray them in the light they want to be portrayed.
Create a goal sheet - 41:46
I just keep on looking at my goal sheet and the things that I outline and saying, Okay, this is where I want to be. I kind of visualize [...] what do I want it to look like? What are the steps that I'm going to have to do to get that visualization to come true?
When you hit the wall, back off - 55:40
When you hit that back off, just leave it for a little while. Don't keep pushing down the door, because the more you push, the more resistance you're going to have. I think that's with anything. When I give it the space that it needs, it helps me to reset inside, reset my brain, reset my thoughts reset my momentum, and then when I go back at it, it's almost like the door was opened because I can see a different way through.
This podcast is brought to you by The Image Salon, a Montreal-based photography & retouching studio. Your hight touch creative partner. Outsource without compromise.
imagesalon.com
Music and Sound Production by Philip Creamer
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Amina Mohamed is a photographer as well as the founder of Triple F Photo Tours and Cameras For Girls.
Triple F Photo Tours is a photo-tour company that showcases the beauty of Uganda while supporting Cameras For Girls - an organization that supplies woman studying journalism in Uganda with cameras and the knowledge on how to use them so that they can use photography as a tool to tell the stories that matter to them.
www.triplefphototours.ca
Moments to listen for:
Connect as a human - 19:42
Before I pick up my camera, I will always make eye contact and always ask for permission. I might not know the language because there are 54 different languages and 54 different tribes. I rely on my people in Uganda to ask for me 'can she take your picture.' and if it's a no, it's a no. Then I graciously thank them and walk away, right? More often than not they'll say 'yes, absolutely.' Because it's how you approach it, and how you have respect for them. Because life in our eyes is very different than in theirs. So I think that goes not just for Uganda, but anywhere you travel. It's that having respect for what you do as a photographer, versus how you portray them in the light they want to be portrayed.
Create a goal sheet - 41:46
I just keep on looking at my goal sheet and the things that I outline and saying, Okay, this is where I want to be. I kind of visualize [...] what do I want it to look like? What are the steps that I'm going to have to do to get that visualization to come true?
When you hit the wall, back off - 55:40
When you hit that back off, just leave it for a little while. Don't keep pushing down the door, because the more you push, the more resistance you're going to have. I think that's with anything. When I give it the space that it needs, it helps me to reset inside, reset my brain, reset my thoughts reset my momentum, and then when I go back at it, it's almost like the door was opened because I can see a different way through.
This podcast is brought to you by The Image Salon, a Montreal-based photography & retouching studio. Your hight touch creative partner. Outsource without compromise.
imagesalon.com
Music and Sound Production by Philip Creamer