Lira, Uganda
The Guru Guru IDP camp, Uganda
House of Hope Children’s Home
Gulu, Uganda
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My husband, Rob, and I make up Vis Photography. We love living life together, and we love working together too! I do all the talking, and he's my quiet secret weapon. We're so blessed to be able to create art, meet wonderful people, and capture those "stop and smell the roses" kind of moments.
I really do think that the art of photography is a lot about stopping to smell the roses. Life is so busy and chaotic sometimes that it takes the stillness of a photo to remind us what's worth stopping for. Even a wedding day can fly by before the bride and groom realizes the beauty of what they just experienced. It's the photo of that first glance or embarrassing moment that can reveal the eternal significance hiding behind the fleeting seconds.
Rob and I met in the third grade and have been inseparable since the ninth grade - you can ask him about the mysterious gap in years. We were married the day before I graduated from college. Since then we've enjoyed and tolerated many adventures, discovered our love for photography, had two sweet babies, opened our hearts wider to the world, and we are blessed to continue living day after precious day.
We can't wait to meet you and share a bit of life with you! -- Love Leah Vis
Lira, Uganda
The Guru Guru IDP camp, Uganda
House of Hope Children’s Home
Gulu, Uganda
The Guru Guru IDP camp, Uganda
Gulu, Uganda
Guru Guru IDP camp, Uganda
Gulu, Uganda
Gulu, Uganda
This was taken at the Guru Guru IDP camp. It was definitely the most uncomfortable place we visited with the most obvious results of 22 years of war and spiritual oppression. Favor of God Ministries is just beginning to work in this camp. They begin with 2 weeks of Trauma Counseling and then offer a 2-month long Portable Bible School. If it’s like any of the other camps we visited, it will be a completely different place afterwards.
This is a great example of what I just explained. Here in Lira, we helped in the Bible Distribution which comes at the end of the Portable Bible School. Compare the two pictures. What a difference!
Gulu, Uganda
My husband, son, and I just got back from Uganda. One of my main roles on this trip was supposed to be taking pictures. I definitely over-estimated my ability to juggle a 1-year-old and still be able to focus on photography. Needless to say, I got about 1/10 the amount of pictures that I wanted. But, the trip was awesome, and we did manage to get some good shots.
Here are a couple, and I’ll share more soon.
The lighting and composition of these are beautiful. Cannot wait to see more. My favorite of them has to be the picture of the road!