Portrait: The Rev. Darrell E. Clark

The Rev. Darrell E. Clark

Single: Rain Delay

When it rains in Texas, it rains hard in Texas...

Hard enough to completely cancel the religious spectacle that is Friday night high school football. Friday night's game at Memorial Stadium in Victoria, Texas was the first I've covered for the Victoria Advocate, a newspaper I'm currently here completing a multimedia internship with.

I was expecting a pretty standard evening of shooting-- grab the first half, then transmit at halftime before heading back to the newsroom-- but the story quickly changed when lightning, thunder and a torrential downpour roared into the area and forced a cancellation of not only the game I was at, but also every other game going on that evening within the paper's coverage area.

In short, the story was no longer football, it was weather. I snagged this photo before scampering back to the press box to dry out:

Victoria East High School cheerleaders, from left, Anna-Ashley Spence, Kirsten Click and Sydney Warner huddle together in the rain at Memorial Stadium in Victoria, Texas on Sept. 20, 2013. Heavy rain and lightning would eventually cancel the game between Victoria East and CC King midway through the first quarter. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Victoria Advocate | September 21, 2013

Seattle Libyan Students

Well, here we are, yet another blog added to the interwebs.

It's been quite awhile since I last penned an entry— Fall of 2010 to be exact, when I kept a blog during a 4 month trip in Europe— but it feels good to be "back in the saddle" so to say. On this site I will post samples of recent work, stories, as well as photographs. Without further ado, here's an update on my most recent project:

In May I attended a talk at Shoreline Community College (SCC) hosted by fellow students whom I had never met before. They were to speak of their own experiences in Libya— a country that has just emerged from civil war and now faces the task of installing a brand new government— while also touching on what they hope to see for the future.

Mohammed, Nadine and Logina each shared stories and insight that cast a very human light on an issue that, otherwise, has been pretty doom and gloom in the media. Their passion was evident and I felt like it would make for a compelling feature.

3100 words, 3 photos, a few weeks and a bunch of phone calls later, here are the photographs and final spread that will run in the double truck of SCC's summertime issue:

Shoreline Community College student Nadine Bejou, 22, is the founder of the TEETH Project (Together we Educate Enhance and Transform Health) which aims to teach young Libyans about proper dental hygiene. During the summer of 2012, Bejou will travel to Libya where she will team up with dental students at the University of Benghazi to continue her project.

Mohammed Rajab Fadil, 20, looks out the window in the apartment he shares with two roommates in the Northgate neighborhood of Seattle, Wash. on May 30, 2012. Fadil, originally from Benghazi, Libya, put his studies on hold at Shoreline Community College so he could return to Libya where he spent two months fighting alongside rebel forces against former dictator Muammar Gaddafi's army.

Shoreline Community College student Logina Abukhashim, 25, practices her English during a morning intermediate ESL class at the school on May 30, 2012. Abukhashim, who has lived in Seattle, Wash. since January of 2012, was forced to leave her native country of Libya after the uprisings closed the university in which she was studying medicine. 

Now that this is finished, I can fully turn my attention to my upcoming Asia trip. I leave on the 27th— still so much to do...

Cheers,

Ian