PROJECTS
Handlers of Faith
Tucked away in the hollers of West Virginia are countless small charismatic churches. The parishioners at Jolo's Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in Three Forks are serpent handlers, taking literally Mark 16: 17&18 that encourages true believers to take up serpents.
Combat Embed
Fall of 2007, traveled from the Kuwaiti boarder, through Bagdad, to Diyala Province, Iraq with various US Army units.
Haiti's Forgotten Kids
St. Vincent's orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, a haven from the streets for mostly handicapped children, from infants to young teens.
Mentawai
The Mentawai people are an indigenous, semi-nomadic group living on Siberut Island off the western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. Famous for their deep bond with nature and intricate traditional tattoos, they survive through hunting, gathering, and sago harvesting under an ancient animistic belief system. An insatiable logging industry is shrinking the Mentawai's cherished jungle at an alarming rate.
Agent Orange
Generations after the Vietnam War, children continue to be born with severe health defects directly tied to Agent Orange, the chemical US forces used to defoliate the jungles where the enemy hid.
A Burning Problem
Crooked kerosine hawkers on the streets of Nigeria's River State routinely cut their product with less expensive, but more explosive, gasoline. When lit, the lanterns and stoves of unsuspecting buyers become fireballs afflicting life threatening burns.
Haiti's Dark Corners
A look inside a typical jail/mental health facility in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Medical Mission: Rwanda
A couple dozen medical professionals from around the U.S. - including a group of George Washington University medical students - open a clinic in a remote region of northern Rwanda.
Chad
On staff for National Geographic's 2010 Photo Camp in Chad. A program where 20 students from the Muslim north and 20 from the more traditional south learned together how to document the shared world around them.
Medical Mission: South Sudan
A medical mission focusing on surgery and maternal health in desolate, war torn South Sudan.
Life on the Tracks
With nearly every square inch of Manila developed, some of the cities poorest live alongside the railroad tracks and speeding trains.
Mothers to Mothers
Women who were once teen mothers themselves go out into the barrios to teach and mentor those living that difficult existence in the Dominican Republic.
Cock Fighting
A brutal blood sport, as roosters tear each other apart with razor blade armed feet. The hollers of working men, waving bills of money in the air, reach a fever pitch until one of the birds lays still in a puddle of red.
Mali's Lepers
Rife with mental images of long ago monsters, leprosy lives on, tucked away in the poorest communities of developing countries like Mali.
Swim Ladies
Collection of portraits celebrating those who live long lives by staying youthful at heart.
Life in Lockdown
Fredericksburg's city jail was too small and located on prime downtown real estate. Its inmates were transferred to the new, state of the art jail in Suffolk and the jail was torn down. An era nobody will miss.
Nigeria's Hidden Corners
A look inside a typical jail/mental health facility in River State, Nigeria.
Coming Home
When a work van slid off a timber bridge in Northern Maine, 14 of the 15 passengers were killed. All were migrant workers. Seven of them were from the same small town in the mountains of Honduras.
Market day in Quito, Ecuador
The smells and sounds of the market reach a fever pitch by sun rise on the edge of Ecuador's capital city Quito.
Burn care: Dominican Republic
Open fires and exposed electric wiring make severe burns a common injury in the Dominican Republic. Physicians for Peace sends teams of experts to treat, and teach how to treat, burns that take lives, but shouldn't.
Nellie Freeman
Unable to have children and widowed at a young age, Nellie turned her huge heart toward foster children. Over the past 30 years, she has opened her home to hundreds of children.
Medical Mission: Eritrea
Before it completely shut the world out, the only U.S. NGO permitted to work in the hermit nation of Eritrea in East Africa was Physicians for Peace, which sent a team of surgeons to operate and teach how.
CuChi, Vietnam
A half century after the Vietnam War and the soil and streams of CuChi remain poisoned by the Agent Orange sprayed by the Americans to defoliate the enemy's jungle cover.
Varanasi
Life and death wash together in the worshipped waters of the Ganges flowing through India's sacred city of Varanasi.
Hydrocephalus: Pumpkin head children
The shunt used to drain the fluid accumulating around an infant's brain with hydrocephalus costs a couple hundred dollars. In the U.S. that's a couple dinners out. For the average Filipino family, that could be a couple months wages, which is why you rarely see "pumpkin head children" in America.
Thao
Thao's body is ravaged by Agent Orange, likely passed down by a parent exposed during the war or environmentally. But her spirit is "like a bird" and her desire to help children in her village learn how to read is impenetrable.