StillVision Abroad - MaiKhanda Project, Malawi.

So... 4 countries, 1 month and 14 flights later and the StillVision studio has re-opened! There is just the small matter of the 38gb of photography to edit from our mammoth trip abroad! Expect plenty of BLOG entries over the next few weeks including photography of our wedding booking in Harare, Zimbabwe and our photo coverage for the Cambridge based charity Aquaid.

Most importantly and the primary reason for our trip to Africa was a photography commission to produce a comprehensive PR portfolio for The Health Foundation in London. Malawi has one of the world’s highest rates of maternal deaths during childbirth with recent figures showing that 984 mothers die for every 100,000 live births and that 27 babies die for every 1,000 births. The foundation has launched a £2.7 million, three year programme dedicated to improving the quality of healthcare for babies and mothers in Malawi.

The project that was photographed is called 'MaiKhanda' and we had the privilege of seeing everything that has been done to reduce maternal deaths. It was an eye opening experience but a very positive one (not to mention a hard working one too).

Below is a selection of favourite images processed in a more photojournalistic style to those produced for The Health Foundation.

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HOSPITALS

July at StillVision Photography

This month has been our busiest yet! We have managed to pack in 6 weddings, quite a few baby photography sessions and a couple of big family groups in the StillVision portrait studio! This helped to break up the routine of editing all of those wedding pictures - it's nice to have the variation. Early on in the month we met with the owners of VUED who sell promotional LCD screens to local businesses and they had not been happy with their original commercial photography so we did some digital retouching work for them and re-shot a couple of products for them. This helped add to the variation but without doubt this month has been a wedding photography month! All of the months wedding highlights are in the stream below as well as a couple of our favourite babies...

The (pretend) Wedding Of Ronald & Ann

We had a more unusual wedding to photograph this week - it wasnt actually a real wedding! Ronald & Ann are actually getting married in Hong Kong in October but whilst on holiday in the UK they wanted a set of 'Cambridge' themed wedding photographs! We spent an entire afternoon shooting wedding pictures and a more casual set of pre-wedding photographs with them. We walked miles to take in all the sights of Cambridge and the weather was incredible so we are sure that Ronald & Ann will remember the experience for some time to come. It was great fun for us too because we had the luxury of time! Real weddings often do not so we relished the chance to be experimental with a bride and groom... as you can see below!

Baby Phoebe

We met one of the cutest babies we have ever had the pleasure of photographing last week! Phoebe is a gorgeous 8 month old with striking blue eyes, lovely chubby features and a personality to match. She smiled, giggled and chuckled her way through her portrait session and gave us the chance to try out some lighting ideas (babies usually get bored after half an hour so we relished this opportunity)! Although a happy little soul, it is the more serious ones that really stand out from her session. We think the dreamy, concentrating faces sum babies up fmuch better than the big happy smiles!

It's worth mentioning again that if you have a cute baby and want some professional photography done then we will give you a FREE portrait session if you mention this blog entry! Just give us a call on (01223) 711508 or e-mail info@stillvision.co.uk.