Wildlife photography for MAUN youngsters
Monday, December 05, 2011
The workshop was facilitated by Botswana resident professional photographers, Stuart Arnold of Kalahari Images and Ulf Nermark of Wafabo. This budget year, the first workshop taught 20 students for 10 days, November 1-10 2011 at Nhabe Museum in Maun.
The aim was again to take the opportunities for photo training to areas outside of Gaborone and to create linkages between active photographers from different parts of the country. Previously it has been held also in Francistown and Serowe.
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