A year an a half ago when I arrived in Jordan, the first magazine I came across and was very impressed by was JO. It's the only magazine here that regularly address the tough issues. It's also one of the only magazines here that shoots their own covers. I had tried several times to get work with them, but they never needed anyone. I ended up pitching a couple of ideas a few months back and that's how I finally got published. The cover feature this month is a reworking of a piece I wrote for Nox magazine. Since that article published last March, the city of Amman secured the main landfill and the men who used to go inside and pick out the recycling to make a living are out of work. The article tells their story. Next month I have another feature that was one of the most challenging things I've ever shot.
No one can say you don't have perseverance!!
ReplyDeleteYay, Bubba!
ReplyDeleteAnd your feeling on those folks loosing their livelihood?
What they were doing was dangerous, so the city should have stopped them. But the fact that people have to do this kind of stuff to make a living is a sad testament to the lack of decent jobs here in Jordan.
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