[Leica] IMG: Bagamoyo and surroundings

[Adam Bridge]

My trip to Tanzania was as photo documentarian for a service trip by a group of students from the College of St. Scholastica, a Benedictine Catholic college in Duluth, Minnesota. Some of the images will be to document that trip. I’m posting images here that I feel might be of interest. Following a link to my SmugMug site will allow you to browse any of the other images. Many of those will be oriented to the trip documentary and probably not of wide interest.

The early part of the trip worked out of Dar es Salaam. We stayed at a hostel called the TEC Center.

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The college hosts Benedictine sisters from two sister monasteries in the south-west part of the country. The most recent graduate, with a masters degree, realized that although public education is free in Tanzania it doesn’t include disabled students. She set about raising funds to build a school to help them. An early stop on our trip was to visit the site of the new school and to deliver a bag she hadn’t been able to bring back with her.

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Most of the money goes to make bricks, by hand, on site:

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Drying bricks:

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Waiting to greet us, one of four sisters waits for us along a path to their dwelling:

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She didn’t speak a word of English, only Swahili, but she radiated friendship and while walking with this crutched was determined that we be comfortable and enjoy a meal with them:

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It takes a fast shutter speed to catch her standing still:

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The sisters’ dwelling. It’s very simple. This is an iphone 6+ panorama:

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The kitchen. There is, of course, no utility connection here:

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Washing oranges:

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Two views of the same set of doors/windows. The first with the Fuji X-T1 and it’s kit lens, the second with the Sony A7ii & 35mm Loxia:
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A student with Sister Gardenzia:

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After our visit to the school site we went up the coast a bit more to the town of Bagamoyo site of a 13th century trading outpost.

This image is from a building built much later, about the time the Germans were settling East Africa:

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From the ruins where coral was quarried and used as building materials. It has survived remarkably well:

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And, finally, one of the characteristic doorways in the old, now ruined, part of Bagamoyo:

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Thanks for looking. The images were made with either a Fuji X-T1 or Sony A7ii.

Comments/critique/suggestions are most welcome.

Adam