This blog is a companion to hivstories.org, a project about AIDS, Poverty and Faith in Mamelodi South Africa.  In this blog I describe my experience photographing in South Africa. The purpose of this blog is to be as transparent as possible as a documentary photograher.

Archive for October, 2005

Formulating The Thesis

by Nathan Clendenin on October 6th, 2005

I am still formulating my thesis this semester through many meetings with Jim Thomas, a professor in the School of Public Health and a missions pastor at the Chapel Hill Bible Church. He’s been extremely helpful in helping me understand the bigger picture of HIV and to dig deeper into how we can help things. If I had to title my thesis right now it’d be: “AIDS, Poverty, and Faith.” I will look at what things the Christian Church is doing and not doing to help with AIDS. This thesis will be finsihed in May, so I’ll probably do a posting on Vicarious Summer when its done (it’ll be an interactive multimedia website). I am excited to most likely return to South Africa in January to follow up on some things and explore more, now that I have more focus.

Extracted from original post on Vicarious Summer Blog