Founded in 2011 by travel and humanitarian photographer Colby Brown, TGL
runs six or more workshops a year to longstanding destinations, including
Cambodia, Cuba, Tanzania, and Peru as well as new ones such as Guatemala,
Mongolia, and Uganda. All three trips I’ve been on have had the same two
co-leaders, Michael Bonocore and Daniel Nahabedian, but about a dozen
photographers regularly or occasionally co-lead TGL workshops.
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and linguistic introduction to Morocco; spending time with our NGO partner,
El Fenn Maroc; and exploring the city with local photographers. The third day,
we drove to the town of Ait Ourir and met our young students at a community
center. We went with them on a photographic scavenger hunt, aiming to get
shots of all the items on a list, such as “something yellow” and “a rooster.” We
rode in horse-drawn taxis to the town’s weekly souk, an open-air market where
you can buy anything from coloring books to livestock. The kids naturally took
to photography and needed little guidance, coming to me only with issues such
as a depleted battery.
On our second day with the children, we photographed a rickety bridge and
visited two Berber villages. Then the kids sang us a farewell song, and we parted
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tented camp run by our travel partner, Open Doors Morocco. We also worked
with another NGO at a Gnawa music club to take promotional photos and
videos of their house band before returning to Marrakech.