Thoughts…

Photographer Martin Schoeller’s spread in National Geographic (December 2009) features portraits of an African nomadic group.

I just finished a story on the Hazda, a Tanzanian nomadic group, in National Geographic. It is beautifully photographed and worded. Author Michael Finkel has this to say about spending two weeks with the tribe:

There are things I envy about the Hadza—mostly, how free they appear to be. Free from possessions. Free of most social duties. Free from religious strictures. Free of many family responsibilities. Free from schedules, jobs, bosses, bills, traffic, taxes, laws, news, and money. Free from worry. Free to burp and fart without apology, to grab food and smoke and run shirtless through the thorns.

Finkel admits that nomadic lifestyle isn’t for him, but he explains that his perspective has been forever altered.

Here’s to a 2010 with altered perspectives. Cheers.