This is one of my all-time favorite photos of Antonio and his best friend, Jim, at the opening of ASSP’s first health center, Mamu Wetu. This health center was special because Antonio got to build much of it with his own hands. Jim was his logistician throughout the building of this and many others in …
This is one of my favorite maternity photos from my time in Congo. I feel like this woman depicts the essence of what it is to be a woman. She is fierce. She is love. She is raw. She is magic. She is the fear-inducing power that, in ancient times, sent women to the stake. …
This is a photo I took while writing in my journal in a dark hotel in Gbadolite. I was writing about how content I was to be in that dark, dirty place. Because it was real. It’s the way people really live near the lowest levels of poverty. Actually, they live in mud huts just …
This woman, pictured to the left is my favorite woman. Ok, one of them. I have many. But THIS woman is special. Her name is Nelly Pamba and she is the head nurse at Kawadje Health Center outside of Gbadolite, Nord Ubangi. Her village had no health center and she knew they needed one. So what …
Seriously, there was something about the utter lack of comforts in this hotel, Chez Yege in Gabdolite, that made my just add boiled water meals from REI taste so good, even when cooked next to this disgusting toilet. My favorite was the Mac N Cheese. Duh. I was cooking this meal next to the shower (which consisted of …
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I was filming in a village called Sake outside of Goma. This mother was playing the role of a poor villager who married young and could not afford to care for her family. Magic 212/365, Maman de Sake, Goma, DRC, 2017
Because I do. This is one of my favorite photos of Antonio. It was shot during one of those rare moments that took myself and my camera into the hear of Kinshasa, Limité. We were checking out a solar installation that a colleague did in a maternity hospital. On the way back to our vehicle (which couldn’t …
The truth is, the world is getting better. It is rare to find a child that looks like this, even in Congo. Organizations like mine, IMA, have done a really good job of eliminating problems like malnutrition in the world’s poorest place. The problem is, it DOES still exist. And so we must continue on …
That’s what I called them after spending two weeks in the bush with these two, watching their excitement gush all over each other every time we installed a new site for the next health center. This is a picture of Antonio, the Architect, and Evan, the Construction coordinator, goofing off on top of a termite …
I love this photo. I don’t know the lady but I love her. She looks to me like such a sweet soul. She was a nurse at one of the hospitals we hung bed nets in during our Hang Up campaign in Nyanga, Kasai. Magic 365, Nurse in Nyanga, Kasai, DRC, 2014