Latest News and Publications
March 2010
-Received an award in the Ekvilib Institute's GLOBAL WORLD Photo Contest.
February 2010
- Feb. 15th "In Pictures: Ghana's Market Girls - The Kayayo", photo gallery for BBC News.
December 2009
-Dec. 14th "Philanthropy the Microsoft Way" photos accompanying article in BusinessWeek.
-I've been traveling village to village in northern Ghana with filmmaker Alicia Sully and Peace Corps Volunteer Leader Allison Terry. Using my Kayayo photos and a film on the same topic, we've been engaging communities in a discussion on urban migration and HIV/AIDS. Click to view a video of the Kayayo Multimedia Tour.
November 2009
-Nov. 19th "Jimmy Carter on Eliminating Malaria", photos accompanying an interview, VanityFair.com
October 2009
-Oct. 28th "Traveling with Ghana's Kayayo Girls" multimedia slideshow published on Time.com
-Awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2009 Lens Culture International Exposure Awards
September 2009
-Sept. 26th "Ghana's Kayayo girls do heavy lifting" published on GlobalPost.
-Sept. 21st Finalist for the Open Society Institute’s Documentary Photography Project Distribution Grant 2009.
-Sept. 17th "Ghana's Kayayo: Making the Most of Poverty" published on the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting website. This story was completed with a travel grant from the Pulitzer Center. View my project blog here or project page here.
August 2009
-Aug. 9th "People Making a Difference: Mohammed Salifu" published in The Christian Science Monitor
June 2009
-June 29 Invited to participate in the 2009 Eddie Adams Workshop / Barnstorm XXII, taking place in October.
-Participating in the group exhibition Woodstock: The After Party at Triennale Bovisa gallery in Milan, Italy, June 26th - September 20th.
April 2009
-April 24 featured on the photo blog Verve Photo: A New Breed of Documentary Photographers
February 2009
-Awarded a grant from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to continue documenting Ghana's Kayayo, a class of thousands of young girls who migrate from Ghana's barren north to find work in southern cities. I will be working on this project throughout March and April. View project page or blog posts.
-Feb. 18 "Music Festival in Mali" multimedia slideshow published in TIME
January 2009
-Jan. 31 “Festival Au Desert” multimedia slideshow published in The National Magazine
-Jan. 31 “Sounds from the Sahara” feature story published in The National Magazine
Previous Publications
-December 5, 2008, "Yeresesamu! A president’s daughter runs for a seat in Ghana’s Parliament”, photo gallery, The Christian Science Monitor
-December 5, 2008, “In Ghana, a political neophyte, with a household name, campaigns”, feature story, The Christian Science Monitor
-September 26, 2008, “Killing the Worm”, photos, GOOD Magazine
-January 25, 2008, “Fighting the Sourge of the Guinea Worm”, photo gallery, TIME
-January 25, 2008, “It Takes a Village to Fight a Plague”, feature story, TIME
-October 4, 2007, “Waiting for the Lights”, multimedia slideshow, The Christian Science Monitor
-October 4, 2007, “Life without lights in a Ghanaian village”, feature story, The Christian Science Monitor