I should probably put a warning here, some of the images will no doubt upset - it is an abattoir, afterall. The livestock market leaves nothing to the imagination, it's a time-tested script of source to sell perfectly executed on a clockwork schedule. Stepping through...
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Ethiopian Timkat
Bisrate Gabriel buzzes with nervous excitement as children dressed in white robes hurry from doorway to doorway, their maroon ropes and golden tassels swinging back and fourth as they weave amoungst the crowd. Church elders embellished in resplendent garb pace slowly...
The Tashkurgan Horse Fair
The bustling cattle markets once sprawled across Xinjiang are slowly vanishing, the promise of a glistening international future fuelling the rapid consumption of valuable city-limit land. Hordes of bright-yellow gas-guzzling behemoths crawl over sun-bleached...
A Dawn Chorus
It's easy to forget that most of the internet and printed literature only ever really show us the best of the best, often hiding our learning and mistakes to the public. A Dawn Chorus was eventually captured from the living room balcony in our appartment in Addis. I...
Wild Geladas, a modern monastery, and a long drive north
It’s far too early on a Saturday morning to be thinking of anything sensible, so early in fact that the sun isn't up yet. Dinner seems an eternity away. We leave in a hire car, our driver smoothly navigating the waking roads of Addis with ease. We pass through the...
Shooting Joumana
I first met Katerina in central Vienna. We shared stories over a coffee or two in a pokey coffee haus just off the Graben and soon started working together, shooting whatever and whenever our schedules would allow. Katerina Joumana has been a staple of the oriental...
A Pastoralist’s Story
The Gift of Water in drought affected Borana – Xmas appeals
NGO collaboration in Borana Zone
Hardcopy publication of interviews and photographs collected from Ethiopia's Borana zone.
Documenting NGO participant interviews in Ethiopia
A big part of my NGO involvment in Ethiopia revolves around the interviewing and documenting of programme participants who take part in short and long-term support programmes in order to test the efficacy of a wide range of aid solutions. These interviews often...
Imaging Ethiopia’s Borana Zone
Multifaceted humanitarian framework rollout in southern Ethiopia, gathering audio interviews with programme participants and building image repositories of completed humanitarian support projects. This iNGO-led rollout embeds essential processes in many of the most...
Imaging aid programmes across Ethiopia’s Tigray region
Visualising aid programmes across Ethiopia's Tigray province. Opportunity to work alongside a multinational NGO who have been maintaining a vast network of support programmes across this region since the 1960s. Their programmes focus on women's empowerment, health and...