I work with NGOs to achieve that end, and to advertise their diverse missions for social betterment. I have enjoyed partnerships with such organizations as The International Rescue Committee, Mercy Corps, The Carter Center, Room to Read, Magic Bus India, Right to Play/USA, Internews, and the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center. I also do this work because my “camera can take me someplace I
otherwise don’t belong." I find myself in a village of weavers high in the Andes of Peru, watching a child learn to play in peace at The San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center, or sitting with a Ugandan woman entrepreneur in a hut on the banks of the Nile that floods every year and has no running water but remarkably she wears a clean white apron and smiles with pride as she tells me her story of success; I pinch myself often. I can’t run a weaving co-opt for 600 village weavers, and I can’t interpret the sandbox play of an abused child to understand her trauma, and her therapy, but I can see them through my lens. I can see the light drawing a line around the face of the genocide survivor telling her story in Rwanda. I can see the reflections of the kids playing soccer in the drizzle at a refugee camp in The West Bank. I can see the stories that bind our human experience, helping me to understand as much about myself as those that appear in my images.
