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No more ‘flies in their eyes': How do photos used by NGOs affect perceptions...
British schoolteacher Keith Coughlin shows photos on an ipad to Syrian refugee children in the Za’atari camp, Jordan, March 2015. Picture: Russell Watkins/DFID The Overseas Development Institute...
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A thousand words on the photographs of Aylan Kurdi
#486305810 / gettyimages.com It is truly extraordinary how the tragic photos of the death of the 3-year-old Syrian boy, Aylan Kurdi have transformed the debate around refugees in Europe over the past...
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A long walk to Langtang
In April 1999 I spent a month trekking in Nepal, from Kathmandu up into the Langtang Valley. It was a beautiful, extraordinary time. Nepal was just about to hold its first democratic elections in over...
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From Bekaa to Brighton: Syrian stories, UK aid
Syrian children look out over an informal refugee settlement in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, November 2013. The border with Syria lies just beyond the mountains a few miles away. Since 2013, I’ve made a...
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Developing pictures 2016: my pick of some great ‘international development’...
From the end of Ebola at the start of the year, to the fall of Aleppo at the end of it, here’s my alternative pick of some of the most striking and (mostly) positive international development photos of...
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Tackling diphtheria in Bangladesh
Dr Derek Sloan, a consultant in infectious diseases from NHS Fife, examines a child for symptoms of diphtheria in the Kutapalong refugee camp, Bangladesh. Picture: Russell Watkins/DFID. In December...
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Constructing futures – using participatory photography to help build careers...
PhotoVoice has yesterday published the results of its latest participatory photography project, Constructing Futures. Construction Futures was a partnership with the Overseas Development Institute in...
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Where there is light
I’m really pleased to see the results of PhotoVoice‘s latest participatory photography project, which has been developed in collaboration with Blesma – the Limbless Veterans Association. Taken across...
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A decade of developing pictures
As we enter a new decade, I’ve realised that I’ve been blogging here off and on for almost the past 10 years and making pictures about international development for about the same amount of time. I’ve...
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Failing light? Some thoughts on photography, Afghanistan and 9/11
Major General Chris Donahue, commander of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division, XVIII Airborne Corps, boards a C-17 cargo plane at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. Maj....
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