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Gold 2023 People / Children

The Watering Hole

  • Photographer
    Nancy Savage
  • Agency / Studio
    Nancy Savage Photography
  • Prize
    Gold in People / Children

Ethiopian day of celebrations prior to a Bull Jumping ceremony. The traditional spot was a 4 mile trek. As we traipsed through an enormous sunbaked river bed I noticed a handful of Hamar children playing in the dirt. Taking a closer look, I realized something unimaginable. The young children were standing in a watering hole. I stopped in my tracks to observe a young boy submerging his empty bottle into the hole. He lifted the bottle of murky brown ground water, then raised it to his mouth and guzzled this precious source. The only alternative when riverbeds run dry.

I have embraced creativity and art in my personal and professional life as long as I can remember. My first career was owner and Designer of an Interior Designer Firm for over twenty years. When I decided to retire from that business I felt a need to fill my creative void. Little did I know that my desire and affection for extensive world travel would be the beginning of my photography career. The past twenty plus years I have committed to exploring and photographing people and places around the world.