Author Archives: Deeba Yavrom
This will be one of my very few soapbox posts. I had the privilege of shooting an assignment on saturday and widened my outlook on life a bit. It was an society of organ donors event, and 2 families gave few media (me and NBC) the opportunity to photograph them as they met for the […]
this is a new photo essay im working on. its pretty serious and could lead to my first award. Saturdays with Jorge and freaky animals.
Church take 3. So after having gone to the Dancey church twice, today was the big day, Easter celebration. I went once and just sat in on a class. I went a second time but took photos for a more low key Good Friday celebration, then the third time was today…for Easter. It was a […]
I had an assignment to shoot at an Eritrean church ceremony on Saturday night….late at night, 1am. What a place to be. I met this young kid, 21 years old, we were talking and he said it took him 2 months to come to the US from Eritrea, illegally. He was just saying how scary […]
Working on a few new projects concerning religion in Oakland. I was walking around International and found an open church, so i walked in and introduced myself. I sat through the first service last week and it went really well…no photos but they said it was good for me to come back for photographs, so […]
took photos at the Railroad Revival Tour, where Mumford and Sons and 2 other bands played. I had a really fun time. Met a few really cool photographers, which is rarely the case because most have a chip on their shoulder when you meet them…even a guy who does video for Nat Geo. Overall a […]