Today is #World Malaria Day and it got me thinking about a close friend of mine who contracted malaria whilst overseas a few years ago. He didn’t feel ill until he’d returned to the UK and thankfully, with the help of the NHS, he received treatment and recovered. It wasn’t a wholly smooth ride though. […]
“There are some training courses you go to because you have to, and some you go to because you want to. The smartphone filmmaking training with Mile 91 was definitely the latter….” With millions of films uploaded to the internet everyday, there has never been a better time to use the technology at your fingertips to […]
Scrolling through Twitter recently I saw a photo of a young woman who had just won the 2018 United Nations Human Rights Prize and realised I recognised her. I recognised Rebeca Gyumi because I had taken her photo whilst working with VSO in Tanzania ten years ago. At the time she was running a youth […]
On UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities we want to talk about the responsibility photographers have to ensure their work doesn’t perpetuate inequality. “That’s his proper happy face – we don’t see that very often.” These were the words of Martin’s sister when she saw the photos that Mile 91 captured of her brother […]
We worked with Shelter to curate archive material and capture stories from today for use in its #shelterat50 activity.
Last month we returned to Uganda with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists to see capture progress on their work in obstetric emergencies.
We wanted to share a few photographs of a typical day from when we visited VSO teacher volunteer Patricia in Ethiopia.
Read about the pride in Kande’s voice as she recalls her daughter’s starring role in the school drama.
