Showing posts with label UNICEF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UNICEF. Show all posts

UNICEF

Some recent UNICEF posters using my images from the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam:

UNICEF Calendar / UNICEF Germany

The new UNICEF calendar is out, and features some of my photos alongside those of my friend Ehrin.

Norwegian Journal of Nutrition

Some of my photos from my work with UNICEF in the Mekong Delta at the end of last year have been published in the Norwegian Journal of Nutrition. The article is a letter from Vietnam by UNICEF's own Roger Mathisen who was down in the delta with me, or rather, I was down there with him. Thank-you to Roger for sharing my photos of the important work UNICEF are doing in Vietnam.

Recent Tearsheets

A couple of the photos I took for UNICEF at the end of 2011 are on the front page of their recent report. And my photos of the dangerous Hanoian gangstahs - EP and the Hanoi Sessions fellows - just before they became hot internet property, appeared in Heritage Magazine, the in-flight magazine of Vietnam Airlines.

UNICEF Outtakes

A few shots from my recent trip down to Danang with UNICEF. More to follow.

UNICEF: Saigon + Hanoi

At the end of last year I travelled with UNICEF to document some of their projects in the south of the country. The second part of the trip focused on some of the shelters set up by UNICEF-supported charities, such as Thao Dan, and their work with vulnerable children and those infected with HIV. I was also trying to capture images which showed some of the risks these children face in rapidly developing urban centres, such as heavy traffic, forced labour, prostitution and drug use.

I saw parts of Saigon that I normally wouldn't, saw poverty, pollution and favela-like living conditions, and met people who showed me how close everyone, at least those in developing nations, are to falling through the cracks; a job lost here, a wrong decision there, and the ground opens.

But I also met inspiring people who are working hard to connect with those in these precarious positions; to find them, help them, and to offer them alternative, safer paths. And the people they are helping are an inspiration themselves; I don't know if I could be as strong, as cheerful as they are if our roles were reversed, and it's humbling to meet them.

It's a privilege to do this kind of assignment, and it's nice to think that my photos will play a small part in helping UNICEF to raise funds to continue their programmes.

UNICEF: Mekong Delta

In November of last year I travelled with UNICEF and a Finnish film crew to Dong Thap province, on the Mekong Delta. We visited various project sites in the region including a local clinic - set up to take care of women's and children's health - and a nutrition group.

Some of the Rest

It was an interesting, hectic end to the year, but now is not the time to write about it. Now is the time to eat cheese with the family back in England, drink of ye wine, see friends, and rest. Here are some outtakes from the last few weeks: