…looks much better from twelve floors up, at night.

I work for the Wildlife Conservation Society in Fiji. In March this year our team spent five weeks living in remote villages in Bua province on Vanua Levu, whilst we undertook biological surveys on the coral reefs around the island (you can see more photos from the trip here. For our first week in the field we were joined by iLCP photographer Keith Ellenbogen. In addition to photographing the reefs and documenting the research that WCS was conducting, Keith had an idea for a side project – to take portaits of all of the villagers of Nasavu.

We set up a makeshift “photo studio” in the house that we were staying in and invited everyone to come along and have their photo taken. At first people were quite shy and a bit wary of all the camera gear, but once they started to see other portraits uploaded on our laptop screens, everyone wanted to be part of the project. In the end we had people turning up to our bure several days later asking to have their photo taken! I can’t wait to see what Keith does with the photos.

Wan Chai night market from Rebecca Weeks on Vimeo.