These photographs were made over more than two decades of humanitarian work abroad, primarily in healthcare settings shaped by conflict, displacement, and structural inequality. I did not arrive with a camera in mind. I arrived to care for bodies, to stand alongside people living through war, loss, and upheaval — to do the ordinary, necessary work of tending in extraordinary circumstances.

I entered these spaces as a practitioner, not a journalist — responsible first for care, and only secondarily for documentation.

Because my role prioritized service over storytelling, many experiences were never recorded. The images that exist here were made in moments where ethical witness felt both appropriate and necessary and when individuals asked me directly to share their stories. These photographs are informed by a belief that how stories are told matters as much as which stories are told.

What you’ll find here are not stories of suffering alone, but of persistence: of lives unfolding inside broken systems, of beauty that refuses erasure, of humanity held together by care. These places changed me. These people shaped how I see the world. The photographs are my attempt to honor that exchange.

*The photographs offered in the print shop were made intentionally, with care for both craft and context. Earlier archival images remain here as part of the record — imperfect, but honest — because humanitarian work, like human life, is rarely tidy.