CV – DIRECTOR / PHOTOGRAPHER
* Veteran creative - 30 years of experience delivering image solutions for commercial partners in over 56 countries.
* 20 years dedication to humanitarian projects, both relief and development, supporting awareness for global aid.
* Lucie Foundation, International Photographer of the Year, Deeper Perspective – The Pink Door Photographs/Haiti
* International photography and film production credits as Director, field and post production producer, cinematographer.
* Globally focused, culturally experienced culturally sensitive, dual disciplined creative.
* Conversant within Brand, Marketing and Communications, Advertising Design and Social Media Platforms
* Production experience spanning East, West , Equatorial Africa, Latin and Central America and the Asian Pacific regions.
* A trusted, respected image maker experienced with sensitive subjects ie.. drought, Hiv/Aids, food security, famine.
PEER AWARDS
* Deauville Green Awards, Normandy France 2014-2018
Gold, Best in Class, Humanitarian category – I AM
Grand Prix, Best Commercial Film – Red Dirt Road
Gold, Best in Class, Humanitarian category – Congo
Grand Prix, Best Corporate Film – Black Inside: Three Women’s Voices
Named 2010 Lucie Photographer of the Year: Deeper Perspective
The Lucie Foundation’s International Photography Awards (IPA) - 8th Annual Lucie Awards – recognized from 15,000 submissions/103 countries.
FILM EXPERIENCES
**2019 – LOG ON.RISE UP.
Client: WORLD PULSE
Role: Director, Photographer/Edit/Library, Producer, Cinematographer, Post Producer - Nigeria / Philippines / USA / India
Summary: "Log On.Rise Up." tells the story of World Pulse through the eyes of four women living in four different regions: Indian Sub Continent, West Africa, North America, and Southeast Asia. The film showcases the impact these women have created through connecting in a digital online community of tens of thousands of women change-makers around the world.
**2017 I AM – Malawi
Client: US Department of State – Washington DC
Role: Director, Photographer/Edit/Library, Producer, Cinematographer, Post Producer
Summary: The first creative story-based film that follows 4 young women, amidst 100, flown to a camp where as young women in science (WiSci) are instructed on self-development by tutors from UNF-GIRL UP, and for the first time introduced to tech industry professionals who teach the campers to code. An award winning film full of heart, Google, Intel, NASA and the US State Dept, inspire these young women to have big dreams and hope for their future.
**2016 Red Dirt Road – Cambodia
Client: Eckstein Initiative
Role: Director, Photographer/Edit/Library, Producer, Cinematographer, Post Producer
Summary: Red Dirt Road, produced on location in the jungles of Cambodia, follows the life of a young woman breaking out from the oppressive garment factories of Phnom Penh. With a backdrop of the 1974 Khmer Rouge atrocities that permanently scared Cambodian life, Saly’s simple dream to become a seamstress and to return to a peaceful life in the jungle with her family, becomes a personal story of hope, determination and a testament to the human spirit. From ideation to delivery, beyond being the director, field to post producer and running camera for 3 months in the jungle heat, it was a film from the heart - a film that the lives of Saly and the women at the end of that last mile - depended on.
**2014 Democratique Republique Du
Congo – DRC
Client: Food for the Hungry Congo USA and USAID
Role: Director, Photographer/Edit/Library, Producer, Cinematographer, Post Producer - Kitanga Province DRCC
Summary: Congo was created to help improve the lives of 800,000 people trying to survive in one of the most difficult places on earth. A conflict zone, I directed the film, shot, produced and directed the offline and online edits, grading, sound, VO and foreign voice talent casting. I managed the Congo and US client relationships, the production schedule, and the budget to include all international field logistics where due to security issues and a broken UN jet – two scheduled weeks of approved field production quickly became seven hours on camera.
**2013 Black Inside –
Three Women’s Voices
Client: United Nations Foundation
Role: Director, Photographer/Edit/Library, Producer, Cinematographer, Post Producer - Kenya / India / Peru
Summary: I was awarded a commission by the United Nations Foundation to create three short films dealing with global health issues surrounding women cooking over an open wood fire, which leads to the needless deaths of over four million women and children worldwide. I took a small indie sized film team around the globe to create three intimate stories - directing, shooting and producing from concept to completion, on location in the Peruvian Highlands, the arid lands of drought affected Northern Kenya to the Indian Sub-Continent along the Nepalese border with India – to give a voice to the challenges and the solutions The Alliance and its global partners are achieving.
**2010 The Pink Door Photographs – Haiti
Client: The Paradigm Project and Swiss Medair
Role: Photographer/Edit/Library, Producer, Cinematographer
Summary: Challenged to produce images with a message of “Hope” from within the earthquake wracked relief field, I created stylized, colour saturated images to project the character of the Haitian community against a backdrop of very difficult realities. I worked on the ground with the MEDAIR relief team, spending 2 weeks in the IDP camps covering food distribution by World Vision, walking thru mountains of rubble that once were homes, many sleeping on the dirt ground for six weeks waiting for relief to come, listening to their worries and fears and for a brief moment, helping to shoulder some of their pain. The images are a result of an advertising image maker, creating conceptual photographs in a traditional journalistic setting, where subjects were invited to get cleaned up inthe only clothes they had left – to bring something that survived the destruction with them – and to have an image created, showing their resilience and strength.
**2014 Typhoon Haiyan – The Philippines
Client: Food for the Hungry International and USAID
Role: Photographer, Producer, Cinematographer
Summary: As part of a forward relief team, I covered the tragedy that struck the Philippines coastline, producing testimonial footage, short PSA clips and reportage photography of the debris field and the survivors, in support of raising awareness to the loss of life, property and livelihood.
**2011 Exodus from Somalia – UN IDP
Camps, DeDaab Northern Kenya
Client: Food for the Hungry International and The Paradigm Project
Role: Photographer, Producer
Summary: At the height of an exodus from Somalia, men, women and their babies sought safety from the entrenched violence and dwindling food supplies, leaving homes, livestock and nuclear families behind. They walked for days without wáter or food from their villages to Kenya’s IDP camp in Dedaab in search of a new life. Working with NGO Food for the Hungry, I gained access from the UN controlled IFO camps, to leverage my reportage skills in covering stories of personal strain - as these refugees straggled in from the open desert.
**2004 S/East Asia Tsunami –
Indonesia/India
Client: Food for the Hungry International
Role: Photographer, Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Post Producer
Summary: Two days after the tsunami hit shore, I was in the air to India to document the destruction and the tragedy engulfing its eastern coastline. An initial two weeks was spent creating personal stories – face to face with survivors who endured an enormous and tragic loss of life. Leaving India my assignment took me to Indonesia’s Banda Ache, the epicenter of the tsunami. I continued to work in the coastal villages documenting its crushed communities with a heavy focus on creating raw testimonial based stories of survival. I returned to the region over many months on projects depicting the results of NGO investment in education and agriculture to help re-start local communities. My hotographs supported efforts by regional government, charities and NGOs to drive awareness and revenue campaigns.
**2004 Kings of Kibera – Kibera Slums
Kenya
Client: Content Pitch - Active
Role: Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Post Producer
SUMMARY - Throughout the globe there's no shortage of money being invested by the western world, private concerns, official NGOs and governments alike, to support feeding programs to help end hunger, provide mosquito nets to stop malaria, advocates and workshops to educate women on their rights or to provide low cost medicine for Hiv/Aids sufferers. Yet many go to bed hungry, due to a lack of food, a lack of education and too few jobs to go around with many of those opportunities heard of yet rarely realized. On a stormy night in the Kibera slums, a group of Hip Hop dancers came together – no money for a boom box for music, hadn’t eaten that day – they danced to a trashed car radio hidden from view within a dank concrete garage lit by a single broken car headlamp.
**HUMANITARIAN PARTNERS
European Union, Food for the Hungry USA, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, RDR Cambodia, French Gov, United Nations Foundation, USAID, US Environmental Protection Agency, Swiss Medair, The Paradigm Project, BURN, The Bix Fund, German Federal Gov. Peru, UNDP Peru, US Department of State, World Pulse
**EXHIBITIONS
Secretary of State – Hillary Clinton: Global Alliance For Clean Cookstoves
“Guardianes De Nuestros Ninos” - Our Children’s Keepers: Lima Peru
United Nations Development Program – Lima Peru
Pink Door Photographs The Paradigm Project, USA
Big Buoy – Hope for Haiti: London
Ice House – Hope for Haiti: USA
**COUNTRY EXPERIENCE
Relief and Development projects in the following countries on multiple assignments to include – Rwanda, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Congo/DRC, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Peru, Bolivia, Guatemala, Mexico, Philippines, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Romania, Haiti and Nigeria.
**SUBJECT EXPERIENCE
Across multiple assignments I’ve been engaged, trusted, to create solid solutions to big issues to include: Clean Cook Stoves/Clean Cooking, Food Security, Drought, Famine, Education, Water and Sanitation, Sustainability Challenges, Health, Gender Equality, Climate and the technological advances bringing solutions and power to the rural poor.
