My love of photography
I suppose that I discovered my love of photography around the same time as I began to write fiction.
A friend of mine in Old Greenwich, Connecticut took a look at some of the photos that I brought back from my travels into Tuscany, France, Peru, Morocco, Thailand, and told me that I had "the eye" and that I should share my images to the world.
I was a bit shy about this and withheld but he pushed me once more, and so in the year 2000 I self-published a book which was intended as gifts for my family and friends. Its lead photo was a picture of Ali Allah, a Tuareg guide in the Sahara on the border of Morocco and Algeria, with the caption underneath that read "Walking into the New Millennium".
In the light of the events of September 11th, 2001 that followed, this was prophetic. It especially prophetic for me as I was working in Manhattan at the time and this event, this tragedy, was one of the singular moments in history that altered me completely.
I left the corporate world shortly thereafter and disappeared into France to write my first novel. My camera was ever at my side.
PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU CAN CLICK ONTO ALL IMAGES TO MAKE THEM BIGGER AND THEN PRESS ARROWS TO TAKE YOU EITHER RIGHT OR LEFT
Jennifer Chapin
PS, the image above was taken at Petra on a recent trip to Jordan in October, 2017.
A friend of mine in Old Greenwich, Connecticut took a look at some of the photos that I brought back from my travels into Tuscany, France, Peru, Morocco, Thailand, and told me that I had "the eye" and that I should share my images to the world.
I was a bit shy about this and withheld but he pushed me once more, and so in the year 2000 I self-published a book which was intended as gifts for my family and friends. Its lead photo was a picture of Ali Allah, a Tuareg guide in the Sahara on the border of Morocco and Algeria, with the caption underneath that read "Walking into the New Millennium".
In the light of the events of September 11th, 2001 that followed, this was prophetic. It especially prophetic for me as I was working in Manhattan at the time and this event, this tragedy, was one of the singular moments in history that altered me completely.
I left the corporate world shortly thereafter and disappeared into France to write my first novel. My camera was ever at my side.
PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU CAN CLICK ONTO ALL IMAGES TO MAKE THEM BIGGER AND THEN PRESS ARROWS TO TAKE YOU EITHER RIGHT OR LEFT
Jennifer Chapin
PS, the image above was taken at Petra on a recent trip to Jordan in October, 2017.
