I know some of my friends were waiting for me to share the presentation that I gave at the Film & Photo Expo this year. So here is the slide show as prepared by myself and the video will follow soon.

2. WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO GIVE
UP?
• COST OF THE EQUIPMENT AND ONLY HAVING A LOW RES CAMERA?
• THE DAY YOU SPENT TAKING HUNDREDS OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND NOT
GETTING THE ONE YOU WANTED?
• NOT HAVING THE RIGHT LENS TO CAPTURE THAT LONG RANGE SHOT
OF NATURE UNFOLDING?

3. IN THE WORDS OF LAO TZU:-
A JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND MILES
STARTS WITH A SINGLE STEP!

4. DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES.
• YOUNGSTERS IN THEMBALETHU WITH A PASSION FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
• ONE CAMERA BETWEEN 6 PEOPLE
• NO MEANS TO RECEIVE TRAINING
• LIMITED RESOURCES
• THANKS TO COMMUNITY WE RECEIVED DONATIONS OF NO LESS THAN 8
CAMERAS BUT OBVIOUSLY NOTDSLR

5. Thembalethu
Massacre
Photography

7. WHO IS SEAN SNYMAN?

8. SUDDENLY EVERYTHING WAS DIFFERENT

9. I NEEDED TO REDESIGN ME!
WHAT I LOOKED
LIKE AFTER THE
ACCIDENT
THE NEW ME

10. My first
years with
the NEX5

11. Sponsored Sony NEX 7

13. MY HOBBY OF PHOTOGRAPHY BECAME MY
RIVER THAT NEEDED TO BE CROSSED- MY
MOUNTAIN THAT NEEDED TO BE CLIMBED
AND MY DESSERT THAT NEEDED TO BE
CONQUERED

14. “I want it more than I am afraid
of it. I pulled myself up, dusted
myself off and got straight
back on the horse of life.”

15. The
photograph
that got me
invited

16. 'I want to show that having a
disability won't hold you back':
British personal trainer who had
leg amputated when he was 16 to
become first disabled man to
model at New York fashion week
Jack Eyers, 25, had his right leg
amputated at the age of 16

18. We all aspire to achieving our goals and it would be
great if companies like Canon, Nikon and Sony would
consider assisting aspirant photographers with
equipment that could aid us in our ambitions of
becoming professional photographers as most
“Super-Abled” members of society do not have the
means to purchase expensive equipment nor is there
always the possibility of getting equipment that will
assist us.