| Starting in June of 2003, I left everything back at home, my friends, family and darkroom to study in Germany for a complete year. For the first two monthes, I lived in Bonn where I went to language school for the other 19 students picked for this Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program. It is a complete scholership, and I am allowed to pick an internship of the career that would best suit me. Of course, my field of study is in photography. At the end of August, I moved to Hamburg and all the other students were separated as well. I went to the equivalent of a high school, called the "gymnasium" but didn't like that and remembered why I came here in the first place... to work with photography, my passion. So, a little dissapointed, I got the e-mail address of Jo van den Berg, one of the best commercial photographers in all of Germany. Of course I wrote him a letter and asked if I may meet him. So, in the next couple of days, we arranged a time and afterwards, already issued me my own job! Photographing a blind paralayzed man, that was very interesting. Also I work in the studio helping to set up and down equipment in the studio with the other 2 workers, I will be doing this until June of 2004 and hope to find the field in photography that I like best. So far, I think I like travel and journalism photography, but who doesn't? I just need to figure out what is best for me, which should be pretty easy and this is good experience too. |