Photography
Africa
I first went to Africa—Kenya and Tanzania—in 2002 working on a project to reduce the reliance on large residential institutions with Ronald Penton from the University of Stockholm. Since then I have worked as a consultant to UNICEF and NGOs in several other countries in Africa, including Nigeria, South Africa, Rwanda, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Tunisia, and South Sudan.
These photographs were taken while we were working to assess and reform their child protection systems.
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Bamboo is the primary material used to create scaffolding to construct buildings in Ethiopia.
Rupurara, Zimbabwe, 2012
This mother and daughter (and another child, unseen, strapped to the back of the young girl) were walking in the back woods of Zimbabwe. I took their picture and then showed it to them on the camera. They had never seen themselves in a photo and were delighted.
South Africa, 2011
This young girl is living in the foster home of the woman next to her. Although the woman had been a stranger to her and she is not with her own family, she found a safe and nurturing home.
Abuja, Nigeria, 2013
Sar Habakkuk is an Igbo Jew. He and the members of his congregation are not accepted as Jews by parts of the Jewish hierarchy in Israel.
Rwanda, 2012
Fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo caused thousands of people to cross the border at Gombe into Rwanda where they were temporarily resettled in a transit camp for thousands of people who after weeks or months would be transferred to longer-term resettlement camps.
While working with UNICEF in Malawi I borrowed a friend’s bicycle and came across this soccer game.
Great Zimbabwe was a city built by Bantu-speaking Africans in the 14th and 15th centuries y. For years British colonizers presented the false history that the stone structures were built by Phoenicians.
The man working on the billboard outside of Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. The crossbars look like a cross the man is carrying.
This woman was sleeping on the floor of the ferry, holding her child’s slipper in her hand.
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