Stop the Pity: Call Me Hope
Directed by Joe Sabia and Bryce Yukio Adolphson Shot and Edited by Bryce Yukio Adolphson Produced by Nyla Rodgers Post-Production Sound Mix by Matt McCorkle 130 Participants! 72 Locations! 2 Continents! 2 minutes and 15 seconds long! This is the second video in Mama Hope’s Stop the Pity Unlock the Potential Campaign which began with Alex Presents: Commando. With this piece [...]
Reel: Camera / Editor / Director, 2011
2010-2011 Documentary Cinematography, Editing and Directing Reel! This little bit of love is basically a year book for all my latest Mama Hope projects (social video and documentary). Locations include: Kenya (Isiolo, Kisumu, Nairobi, Maai Mahiu); Moshi, Tanzania; and California. Set to the song “VCR” by The xx. Projects include: Call Me Hope Directed by [...]
Mama Hope: The Second 2 Weeks
Another Mama Hope photo blog! Kisumu! Netball! Woman Business Groups! Kids Stampeding! Check it out at the Mama Hope blog!
Mama Hope: Corn Shucking
Spent a day with the women of the Mama Rita Rose Garden during their seasonal corn harvest at the Mama Hope’s partner community in Kisumu, Kenya. Check it out in more detail with Amy’s post at the Mama Hope blog!
Mama Hope: The First 2 Weeks
New Mama Hope photo post! Images from the first two weeks in Kenya. Kenyam partner communities include: Maai Mahiu, Isiolo, Kambi Garba, Arimet and Kisumu. Total time in Matatu buses: 23 hours. Check out the full post at the Mama Hope blog!
Mama Hope: Tie and Dye
It took about 3 seconds to register that “tie and dye” meant “tie-dye”. The rest was chaos. I spent this last 4th of July with the Mama Hope team and some of my African mama’s in Isiolo, Kenya. Check out the Mama Hope blog for the full scoop!
Mama Hope: Back at It!
I’m back in Kenya with the Mama Hope team! First stop was our Comfort the Children International partner community in Maai Mahiu, Kenya. We’ve been sponsoring a Drip Irrigation Food Garden and now Tree Nursery at the Ngeya Primary school since 2008 and the benefits are apparent. More than 80 students are members of [...]
V-Day Feature
What? I’m posting this an entire month after Valentines Day? Ah well… better late than never.
Dancing in the Streets
Here are a few pics from a San Francisco rally celebrating the resignation of Hosni Mubarak. The night before it was being called an emergency protest, but by sunrise it had turned into a celebration.
Goodbye SoCal
This about sums up my last month in southern California. From the left are my grandparents Tak and Molly Yamashita and friends Jan Dietrick and Ron Whitehurst.
Mama Hope: St. Timothy’s School
Promotional video highlighting the opening of Mama Hope’s recent project, St. Timothy’s School in Moshi, Tanzania. Mama Hope is a non-profit focused on building self-sufficient communities throughout Africa. This incarnation of the video was made specifically for a fundraising event hosted by Rarecat Wines in August of 2010. I shot the film, then co-edited with [...]
Documentary Reel 2007-2009
A demo reel of Camera and Editing work from 2006 to 2009. An updated reel is forthcoming. Included Clips: Microfinance as Empowerment: Trapiche, Nicaragua, 2007 Refugee: San Diego, United States, 2008 Mama Hope: Year One: Isiolo, Kenya, 2008 The Writer and the Crocodile: Ventura, United States, 2009 St. Timothy’s School: Moshi, Tanzania, 2009
Kitchen Kids
Somehow I ended up obligated to cook for 15 people by myself. …so there I was not quite sure how to go about this. Not that I didn’t know proportions or what to fix, but rather I didn’t know how to get this finished before 11pm. The sun had set and a small kerosene lamp [...]
Habari mbuzi? or How is the goat?
I was walking by the Early Childhood Development classes one day when I got ushered in. Mercy, the vastly overworked teacher, made a plead for help while she took care of her 30 other responsibilities. So there I was in front of the class trying to think of something to say in Swahili. Not surprisingly, [...]
Albina and the ECD Collage
I got all warm and fuzzy when I saw this. I gave a handful of prints to Albina, the former Early Childhood Development teacher, last year. Anyone else would have just taken them home and put them in an album. When I mentioned it to her she simply said, “The kids love so much to [...]
Keeping Clean
The importance of washing with soap is repeated over and over again in advisory posters from the Ministry of Health. We have about 4 of them in the Mama Tumaini Health Clinic. Prevent Cholera. Finish Sickness. Wise advice. A few weeks back I stepped out of the hellpot and into the morning air. The sun [...]
Cords and Nails
The ambulance pulls up and Nassir hops out. “Bryce. Can we use the blue electrical cable?” he asks, his eyes showing a sense of urgency. I pause for a second eyeing the young man in the passenger seat. Not that he doesn’t look responsible, but I love that blue cable. I cherished it last year [...]
Mzee Mwambia
You might have seen this video in my recent Mama Hope post. It’s by two of my Trainers of Trainers students (more on that later) , Salim Yassen and James Sunday. They went out a few weeks ago on a Ramadan food distribution and took this video of their own accord. I hope you enjoy [...]
“Hot on top of hot.”
Eid in the morning is nice and peaceful. All the muslims in Isiolo are celebrating the end of the Ramadan fast by heading off to the local stadium for a massive group prayer. The children are dressed in their Friday best. All is well. Eid in the afternoon is a bit of chaos. It seems [...]
“Where do you shower?”
asks Khadija. She’s the program director at Wind of Hope in the Arid, the HIV/AIDS community based organization I am currently with. I’m also living in her house. We were talking about insecurity, the displacement going on and the gunshots we heard this morning. But now we’re on to more important things. “In fact I [...]