I am so happy you liked the photos. Received compliments on them from others as well and it makes me feel well because I always was fascinated with photography.
Yes, the city is one violent place so being able to have the wife come on an assignment was great.
The driver was funny and completely unimpressed. He was talking about his village was better.
In terms of the style, this is the new way of reporting. The editor at Dawn is a really nice girl and was previously at Salon.com
All of these reports are either doing a narrative style and listicles. I personally hate listicles but if done right aren't so bad. There are some really obvious listicles and those are just sad.
To write this I looked up tips online and I tried to do this informative piece that read like a letter but was relating information to the reader. I've written some short stories that I'd like to share here some day.