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• Fisheye Rumble in the Pond Chapter 27: The Lomographers say: “Groove on Shankar! We just love the sun!”

  
  Creative individuals talk about their love for Lomography and of course, the Fisheye!
  December 31, 2011 1 like

• Fisheye Rumble in the Pond Chapter 26: The Lomographers say: “Groove on Shankar! We just love the sun!”

  
  Creative individuals talk about their love for Lomography and of course, the Fisheye!
  December 30, 2011

• Fisheye Rumble in the Pond Chapter 25: The Lomographers say: “Groove on Shankar! We just love the sun!”

  
  Creative individuals talk about their love for Lomography and of course, the Fisheye!
  December 28, 2011 1 like

• Fisheye Rumble in the Pond Chapter 24: The Lomographers say: “Groove on Shankar! We just love the sun!”

  
  Creative individuals talk about their love for Lomography and of course, the Fisheye!
  December 27, 2011 1 like

• Chapter 15 Lomo Kikuyu: It Is Up To You: A Slice of Nut Loaf and a Pint of Beer, or Someone’s Eyesight!

  
  Having got this far in the book you are now well-informed: You know who Gikuyu and Mumbi are, you feel a sense of kinship with Mrs Schmidt and Mr Lopez, you know what a cataract is, how the operation works, how people in the whole of East Africa are being helped by jeep and plane, what the Kikuyu Eye Unit does, how it helps, and most of all how your contribution is best invested there. Which leads us to the hottest of issues: your money!
  December 07, 2011

• Chapter 14 Lomo Kikuyu: The Central Administrative and Financial Headquarters: Light for the World in Vienna

  
  In the meantime, the whole fuss about eyesight, Kikuyu, safaris and cataracts has set you a-thinking. How do the people here in the rich parts of the world find out that the sick in Kenya need our help? Who donates to whom? And what exactly is Light for the World? More and more questions are partially answered at www.lomography.com/kikuyu.
  December 06, 2011 2 likes

• Chapter 13 Lomo Kikuyu: Kikuyu Finances: Where Does the Money Come from and What is Done with it?

  
  The thought that such an eye clinic probably costs a fair whack must surely have flickered through your mind. So how does the Kikuyu Eye Unit support itself?
  December 05, 2011 3 likes

• Chapter 12 Lomo Kikuyu: The Further Education Programme

  
  The demand for surgeons, assistants and nurses is rising steadily with the spread of information about the ways eye disorders can be healed.
  December 02, 2011

• Chapter 11 Lomo Kikuyu: Cross-Border Safaris and Safaris by Plane

  
  Not all areas can be reached by jeep. Some areas are so far away or so remote that driving there would take too long, and they can only be reached by plane. In such cases it is not possible to undergo largely planned preliminary examinations and to take the patients who need surgery to Kikuyu a week later as would normally be the case in the Outreach Programme.
  December 01, 2011

• Chapter 10 Lomo Kikuyu: The Community Outreach Programme & Road Safaris

  
  Many roads lead to Kikuyu. The word has spread among the visually afflicted of Kenya, and no small number have heard at some point of the eye clinic near Nairobi – and even found their way there by themselves to receive excellent treatment and be cured (as already described). But there are still also an enormous number of people who have difficulty seeing or are completely blind in Kenya who have never even heard of the Kikuyu Eye Unit.
  November 30, 2011 2 likes

• Chapter 9 Lomo Kikuyu: The Kikuyu Eye Unit – How an Eye Clinic Works

  
  Back to Kikuyu. You know now what this is about, and you can imagine why it is so extremely important to dedicate so much attention and financial resources to combating eye diseases and blindness. The Kikuyu Eye Unit plays a key role for the whole of Kenya! That it costs money, even though considerably less than it would here in the industrialised countries, is clear. As is the fact that there is still not enough money for it in these countries, either.
  November 30, 2011

• Chapter 8 Lomo Kikuyu: Vitamin A Deficiency

  
  Many children go blind due to vitamin A deficiency as the result of malnutrition. In many parts of Africa families simply do not have the wherewithal to nourish themselves properly, and they suffer from vitamin deficiency as a result.
  November 29, 2011 1 like

• Chapter 7 Lomo Kikuyu: Trachoma

  
  The cataract is neither the beginning nor the end of this story. There are many more illnesses, and a shocking number of people afflicted by them.
  November 28, 2011 1 like

• Chapter 6 Lomo Kikuyu: The Cataract

  
  Some of us know cataracts from our grandparents. They see badly, then worse, and the assembled kinsfolk mumble something about a cataract self-pityingly. This creeping, gradual worsening of vision, the cataract, has a dramatic name for good reason.
  November 25, 2011

• Chapter 5 Lomo Kikuyu: So What are the Kikuyu?

  
  First of all, the Kikuyu are the largest Ethnic group in Kenya. They live in many parts of a country that is about the same size as Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Germany put together. The Kikuyu live mainly from farming just like a major proportion of the population of Kenya. Legend has it that the name comes from a man who lived many hundreds of years ago called Gikuyu.
  November 24, 2011

• Chapter 4 Lomo Kikuyu: Africa, Kenya, The Kikuyu Eye Unit

  
  Between 34 and 42 degrees east, 5 degrees north and 5 degrees south (bang on the equator!) is where you will find Kenya.
  November 23, 2011 1 like

• Chapter 3 Lomo Kikuyu: Kikuyu - A Voyage to See and Restore Sight

  
  Discover, recognise, understand, red, green, blue, purple, focused, blurry, bright, dark, small, big, below, above, crooked, slanted, wide-awake, dead tired, colourful, pitch-black, pink, fascinating, illuminating, embarrassing, exhilarating, incomprehensible, extraordinary, peculiar, inverted, twisted, singular and a whole lot more: Eyes can take in and be all of this, sight can mean all of this.
  November 22, 2011 1 like

• Chapter 2 Lomo Kikuyu: Table of Contents

  
  Read up and learn more about this special Lomography project.
  November 21, 2011 1 like

• Chapter 1 Lomo Kikuyu: How to save an eyesight with a fistfull of dollars!

  
  How you can save a person's eyesight – for only a fistful of dollars! In this Lomographic picture book with text we tell the fantastic story of the Kikuyu Eye Clinic in Kenya/Africa, a tale of the curing of hundreds of thousands of seeing disorders – and with their eyesight, the saving of many, many people's lives. In this book we talk about the existential significance of being able to see, to look – a key Lomographic issue, wouldn't you say?
  November 18, 2011 3 likes

• The Caviar Diaries – Chapter 12: Outro

  
  This concludes our Caviar Diaries adventure with the La Sardina.
  October 22, 2011 2 comments 8 likes