I first got into photography while working at a daycare in college. I’ve long said that kids make it really easy to take good pictures. They are so full of emotion and expression. These two boys were snapped on the road to the market. I took two shots and for the second shot which you […]
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I’m not quite sure what I like so much about this image that I took by the town’s corn mill. It may be the girl’s dress that just pops out with its bright pattern. It may be the expressions on their faces or the way she is clutching her cloth that bundles up her money. […]
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The hospital has clinic days on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. On those days the courtyard and front area are crowded with people waiting to be examined by a doctor or medical assistant. This photo was taken late in the afternoon on a Tuesday with the sun shining on the front of the hospital. You can […]
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This kid just had corrective surgery for bow-leggedness. I think his body language in this image sums up how he feels about having two casts on his legs.
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The white powder you see is ground corn. It has been spread out on a cement slab to dry in the sun. I took this photo by Koko Duu, the hospital’s nutrition center. Women with malnourished children bring their kids there during the day to feed them a high protein porridge. In the mid-day sun […]
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Women in West Africa have amazing strength. Yesterday, some workers chopped up a fallen tree and most of the women from the nutrition rehabilitation center came down to haul the wood back the center. It was unbelievable to see each of these women carrying what must have been well over a hundred of pounds of […]
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Ever accidentally gone in the wrong bathroom? I’ve found myself in an embarrassing situation or two when I’ve entered the women’s bathroom by accident. Here in Nalerigu, they make sure you don’t go in the wrong public bathroom by using this sign instead of the the standard stick figure with a dress.
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Heidi has commented on numerous occasions about how different medical processes are here than in the US. In the US we have the luxury of sterile medical environments and an abundance of new drugs. This box holds the medicine to be used on a given day in the pediatrics ward. It is shocking how dirty […]
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We are at the end of rainy season and late each afternoon huge thunder clouds roll in but don’t provide a drop of rain. I had just passed through the market to the other side of town when these children ran up asking to be “snapped.” I asked them to pose on the abandoned bulldozer […]