In the 48 hours I was at ICARDA’s Terbol station in Lebanon, I shot close to 1000 photos. This is my favourite and sums up the joy I felt in sharing time with ICARDA’s Genetic Resources team.
As I started firing off shots of Ahmed Amri and Mariana Yazbek in the genebank’s active collection, I questioned why Ahmed was so serious. Earlier in the day he had told me ‘I am always smiling’. I must have caught him in a serious moment of reflection while studying the bar codes of the seed containers. But within a moment, Ahmed came back into character and cracked a joke which obviously amused Mariana.
It really was a joy to work with all of ICARDA’s team in the short time I was there.