South Sudan’s first birthday
On the 9 July the world’s newest country celebrates its first birthday. After four decades of war, the Republic of South Sudan won independence last year but a year on its people dreams of peace and prosperity lie in tatters.
GIRL POWER SAVES LIVES
Family planning isn’t just a lifestyle choice, children’s lives depend on it. Girls like Josephine, 16, pictured in Save the Children’s campaign don’t have access to contraception – and they certainly aren’t empowered to make that choice even if contraception is available.
Niger’s hunger-fighting trees
The unremarkable looking moringa tree has become a frontline weapon to fight the recurring droughts that have hit the West African nation.
Photography and film production for Save the Children’s nutrition campaign
My brief from Save the Children International was to identify three countries that highlighted different malnutrition issues and commission film, photography and interviews in these countries.
Radio 4 Today programme production for Save the Children
The brief from Save the Children was to identify a country, then a specific town and to search out and set up compelling stories and all the necessary logistics for Today programme’s top journalist to visit over the course of a year.
My photo used for Save the Children hunger campaign posters
A photo I took of a little three year old boy, Saguirou, who was recovering from severe malnutrition in Niger is used on posters for Save the Children’s hunger campaign.
Not again – Niger faces food crisis
When I read the headline ‘Sahel facing major food crisis’ in the Guardian this morning I thought for a minute I was reading an old article from 2010.
How to get a photography commission for an NGO
I’m always being asked by photographers ‘how do I get to work for NGOs?’ So I thought I’d put together my top ten tips – well thirteen actually. This isn’t a definitive guide but is based on my experience and opinion formed over 14 years of working in the industry.
Somalia: Women seek refuge in IDP camps – in pictures in The Guardian
The Guardian runs a series of photos that I shot in Bosaso, Puntland, in north-east Somalia depicting the impact on mothers and their children of the worst drought to hit the country in 60 years
Sudan: Vaccines don’t inject themselves
It takes teams of dedicated people to get the vaccines to those children who need them most, those living in remote areas of some of the poorest countries in the world. Watch my film and meet these heroes!