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........................................................................... ArtKudos International Juried Art Competition & Exhibition Seth Whitton Featured piece: See-Saw www.artkudos.com ...........................................................................

     My most recent deviations are from a recent trip to Uganda. There I spent two and a half weeks working with youth in a town called Mbarara. Youth is considered anyone who is under the age of thirty and is single. Uganda's population consists of over 50% youth. This is due a lot to the AIDS epidemic and a recent war where parents of now called youth were killed.     I think most people view a third world country as some place where it would be horrible to live. Some believe every country that is stricken by poverty, in an American sense, is unhappy. I come back from Africa knowing that this isn't the case. The people in which I came in

Foreign places seem to be one of the better places to capture pictures. I guess that you are just more aware of your surroudings when you aren't used to them. I really like downtown areas. The oldness of everything just makes you wonder what happened there at an earlier time. I think the best part of it all is finding some thing or place that seems untouched for awhile. Then you capture that with the best of your ability and that is your moment. Pretty good feeling.