What started as a “girl’s week” with several friends became a trip of a lifetime for Laura Pedrick. In 2023, at the invitation of a friend with family on assignment in Rwanda, Pedrick and three others embarked on a journey half way across the world.
As a photojournalist and travel photographer, Pedrick was eager to not only capture the beautiful landscapes and safari vistas, but experience local culture. This would include fabric shopping in the city of Kigali to buy material for a bespoke gown, taking cooking lessons at a women’s cooperative bakery, and many walks throughout the clean and colorful streets.
Pedrick will discuss her trip, with all the insights and serendipitous connections during a presentation of her Rwandan photos.
Admission
The event is free to Kalmia members and open to the public with a $10 suggested donation. For more information, contact us at kalmiaclub@gmail.com.
Raffle
A print from the presentation will be raffled off, with all monies being donated to Umutima Cooperative at Nyamirambo Women's Center.
The raffle prize is a 16” x 24" color print, in a 30” x 22" frame, of a beautiful Rwandan woman dressed in red with a red bucket, simply on her way to do chores in downtown Kigali. The retail value of the print is $750.
About the presenter
The first half of Laura’s career was doing photojournalism. Straight out of college she worked on a small evening newspaper in upstate New York, then later moved to Trenton where she was assigned by the New York Times to cover the statehouse (1990-2013), as well as a wide range of hard news and features for every section of the paper, including documenting political campaigns, both on the local and national level.
For the past ten years she has focused on visual storytelling for private schools, small businesses, and entrepreneurial individuals needing image branding, including politicians running for office. Still compelled to keep her connection to print journalism, she is a frequent contributor to the Bucks County Herald’s magazines Prime Time and River Towns. She has a studio in Lambertville that is dedicated to business portraiture.
Her travel itch is satisfied as a contributing photographer and writer for destinations featured on the popular travel blog, Johnny Jet.
Laura has a fine arts degree from New York University’s Tisch School for the Arts. Her home is Titusville, NJ.