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W
hen Yerin Chung ’09 spent a few weeks dying of AIDs, forced to sleep on the ground, living
in western Kenya last summer it was all a life so different from her own.
about seeing things in a different light. She also trained the lens on almost everyone
Chung, a soon-to-be senior from Korea, was she met, spending time with children whom she
tagging alongside her aunt and an old nursing school said just wanted her around.
friend of hers who’d spent the last 20 years minister- “Whenever I was focusing on someone, 20 kids
ing to the sick and providing spiritual counsel as a ran into my lens,” she said. “They were touching
nurse and nun in the remote town of Eldoret. my hair, my face. They were so surprised. They
When Chung learned of the opportunity to would say, ‘You’re hair is so straight and they
visit Africa, her mother thought of another way to would try to say something more in English.’ ”
Yerin Chung ’09
make the trip valuable: Bring her camera. She tutored an 18-year-old boy paralyzed in a
along with her aunt
After a photo class at St. George’s in her sopho- tree fall, teaching him long division and writing
(far right) and nuns
more year and some time with an old photography notes back and forth in English to overcome chal-
from the village who
mentor of her mother’s (Ms. Chung is also smitten lenges with their accents. are also nurses.
with the art), Yerin was enthusiastic about the “I think I learned a lot,” said Chung. “At first I
Inset: photograph
possibilities. wasn’t thinking about what would look good in the
taken by Chung of a
She loaded up her Canon D400, snapped on a photo. I just brought my camera and clicked it. But
local woman also
from one of the
vintage zoom lens she’d known since childhood, after a while I realized, this kind of composition
villages she visited
and took full advantage of the change in scenery. makes sense. This is really something I want to
on her trip to Kenya
The camera, she said, helped her gain even capture—and remember.”
in the summer
more perspective on what she was seeing: people —Suzanne McGrady of 2007.
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