Little IDPs
Some of the younger displaced people (IDPs) that I ran into at one of the camps in which they are living. 350,000 Yemeni’s have fled violence in the northern region of Sa’ada.
Photography in the Face of Adversity
I am writing this post from some anonymous airport lounge, watching the sun rise over the tails of the planes scattered carelessly on the runway. I have just left Haiti and am on my way to the next adventure, wherever that may be/. (Watch this space). I can only apologise for the recent prolonged deathly [...]
Haiti Earthquake Response: 3 Months On [vid]
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60 hours of international travel gives one a little free time to get stuck into photo editing. To keep myself busy I decided to play around with some of my photographs from the last couple of months in Haiti. So here is a video commemorating those who have worked (and are still working) to pick [...]
A Budding Photographer in the Midst of Camp Chaos
I have been too busy to post anything lately. But my time in Haiti is coming to an end before long. Hopefully then I will then have the time to put some more posts up a little more frequently. But in the meantime, here’s a budding photographer at a distribution in one of Port-au-Prince’s displacement [...]
Learning To Appreciate The World of Fashion Photography
I’ve never done any studio work. And to be honest, I’ve never really wanted to. When it comes to artificial lighting, I’m completely out of my depth (save for a few forays into constant light experimentation). But every now and then I do get asked to take some shots. And surprisingly, it’s really fun!
I suppose [...]
Holding On For Life
At 14 Ko Ko lost his parents and two brothers when Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar’s low-lying coastal regions in May of 2008. He and his young sister, however, were saved thanks to his quick thinking and determination.
The cyclone brought with it a surge of water up to two metres high that washed across the rice [...]
Playing With Flash-less Portable Lighting
As a photographer with a leaning towards photojournalism and reportage, I tend to shy away from using a flash. It might also have something to do with the fact that I’m too tight to shell out for a decent flash and so they remain a total mystery to me. So whilst I can get away without a flash for the vast majority of my shooting conditions, every now and then I am forced to compromise.
Documenting a Crisis: Iraqi Refugees
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Up to 2.5 million Iraqis had fled from the war in Iraq into neighbouring Jordan and Syria when I was sent to work on the crisis. Yet the world seemed to neither know nor care about this mass exodus of vulnerable people. In 2007 I was assigned the task of [...]
A Refugee’s Story: The Little Red Car
Gabriel takes his little red car with him everywhere. It is the same colour as his father’s car. At only six years old, Gabriel saw his father die behind the wheel of his red car. He sat and watched helplessly as the driver of the car that deliberately smashed into theirs pulled the gold wedding band off his father’s finger.