
This is an unusual blog post for me, as a photographer, to be writing. At the same time, it is only logical, that I be the one writing this. Last summer I traveled to West Africa with the Cameroon Football Development Program. My job was to begin documentation of this sports for development program, as we [...]
Feb 15, 2012 | Categories: Africa, All Posts, Documentary/Photojournalism, New Posts, Non Profits/NGO's | Tags: Cameroon, Cameroon Football Development PRogram, Dan Speicher, documentary photography, HIV/AIDS, Non Profits/NGO's, Pittsburgh Wedding Photographer, wedding photojournalism, West Africa | Leave A Comment »

ITs been a busy past few weeks here in Cameroon working with the Cameroon Football Development Program as we were preparing to run training camps for our new leaders and project coordinators. So after weeks of preparation, on and off the pitch, and the arrival of FSS Salaberry, our training partners/first team of pen pals/ [...]
Jul 08, 2011 | Categories: Africa, All Posts, New Posts, Non Profits/NGO's, Stories | Tags: Cameroon, Cameroon Football Development PRogram, CFDP, Dan Speicher, development, documentary photography, education, FIFA, fss salaberry, Non Profits/NGO's, photojournalism, Soccer, West Africa | Leave A Comment »

Not long ago, Justin the founder of the Cameroon Football Development Program, lived in a village outside of our hoe base of Kumba. He was working with the University of Dayton, in Ohio, to design and construct a water system for a farming village that is set off of the beautiful Lake Barombi. The project [...]
Jun 30, 2011 | Categories: Africa, All Posts, New Posts, Non Profits/NGO's | Tags: Africa, Cameroon, Cameroon Football Development PRogram, CFDP, Dan Speicher, development, documentary photography, education, HIV/AIDS, humanitarian photography, non profit photography, Non Profits/NGO's, photojournalism, pittsburgh photojournalist, West Africa | Leave A Comment »

Here in Cameroon nearly every type of event draws a crowd. You could be having a choir practice, and it is pretty much guaranteed that a group will assemble to listen to the singing. Replace singing with soccer, and you could have five people or 100 people watching. The crowd usually consists of kids that hear something [...]
Jun 28, 2011 | Categories: Africa, All Posts, New Posts, Non Profits/NGO's | Tags: Cameroon, Cameroon Football Development PRogram, CFDP, documentary photography, education soccer, HIV/AIDS, photojournalism, West Africa | Leave A Comment »
Jun 20, 2011 | Categories: Africa, All Posts, New Posts, Non Profits/NGO's, portraits | Tags: Cameroon, Cameroon Football Development PRogram, CFDP, documentary photography, Kumba, market, non profit photography, Non Profits/NGO's, photojournalism, portraits, West Africa | Leave A Comment »

Work here in Africa is very different from back home in the U.S. Just preparing a meal takes many hours, and depending on the meal, preparation can begin days in advance. A good way to explain this is through a scene witnessed on Thursday. Mrs. Ngwane, “Momma” (the matriarch of our compound) is heading to [...]
Jun 10, 2011 | Categories: Africa, All Posts, New Posts, Non Profits/NGO's | Tags: Africa, Cameroon, Cameroon Football Development PRogram, cooking, development, documentary photography, education, food, futbol, HIV/AIDS, photojournalism, Soccer | Leave A Comment »