Photography is my means of discovering the world is more interesting than I ever could have imagined. It is a tool to tell specific stories about specific places. It is a means of learning that our heroes are flawed and our enemies are human.
I first visited Africa in 2006 after I’d finished my master's in print journalism. Soon after that, I moved to Uganda where I lived and worked as a writer and reporter. I always took pictures, but it wasn’t until 2010 when I was living in Liberia that I began to focus on photography exclusively.
I've been commissioned by The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera America, Le Monde, and others. My own projects have been featured on Time’s Lightbox, National Geographic’s Proof, the New York Times Lens, New Yorker’s Photobooth, and elsewhere.
My work has received many awards from Photo District News, American Photography, PX3, Magenta Foundation, International Photography Awards, Sony World Photography Awards, FotoweekDC, Communication Arts and more.
My work is regularly shown in galleries, projections, containers and museums in New York, Washington DC, Nigeria, London, and elsewhere. I’ve been selected to attend LookBetween, the annual New York Times portfolio review, and Aperture’s Photography Expanded Labs.
I am also a lecturer at the New School in the Graduate Program for International Affairs where I teach a class about images of the developing world.
