🔆 We create impactful and insightful visual stories which help organisations communicate effectively with the people who matter.🔆 We have helped clients including Solarcentury, The International Institute for Sustainable Development, and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil create and achieve:🔅 Fundraising Campaigns and Donor Reports that have Increased Trust and Income🔅 Approachable, Natural Portraiture that has Improved Engagement and Recruitment🔅… Show more 🔆 We create impactful and insightful visual stories which help organisations communicate effectively with the people who matter.🔆 We have helped clients including Solarcentury, The International Institute for Sustainable Development, and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil create and achieve:🔅 Fundraising Campaigns and Donor Reports that have Increased Trust and Income🔅 Approachable, Natural Portraiture that has Improved Engagement and Recruitment🔅 Impactful Training Programmes and Materials🔅 Engaging Editorial Features for Publications like the Guardian, The Sunday Times and Positive News🔅 Internal Communications that Inform and Educate🔅 Vibrant Event and Conference Imagery that have Contributed to Increased Delegate Numbers🔅 Successful Product Launches🔆 Please call 020 7558 8368 or email stories@gaiavisual.com for a no obligation chat about how we can help you create powerful and effective visual stories and campaigns. 🔆 Show less

⭐️ CAMERA PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY TRAINING FOR HUMANITARIAN, DEVELOPMENT & ENVIRONMENTAL FIELD WORKERS!⭐️ CREATE POWERFUL IMAGES AND AUTHENTIC STORIES🔆 This training helps organisations tell evocative stories that connect with the audiences that matter, by empowering fieldworkers to dramatically improve their photography, and be more involved in the storytelling process.🔆 This saves you time and money, and engages more people in your successes and challenges - increasing… Show more ⭐️ CAMERA PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY TRAINING FOR HUMANITARIAN, DEVELOPMENT & ENVIRONMENTAL FIELD WORKERS!⭐️ CREATE POWERFUL IMAGES AND AUTHENTIC STORIES🔆 This training helps organisations tell evocative stories that connect with the audiences that matter, by empowering fieldworkers to dramatically improve their photography, and be more involved in the storytelling process.🔆 This saves you time and money, and engages more people in your successes and challenges - increasing understanding, support, and funding/profit. Show less

🔆 Top quality imagery and visual stories are essential for healthcare organisations who want to communicate effectively. 🔆 We have helped the World Health Organisation, The United Nations, The Royal Colleges of Physicians & Nursing, and many UK NHS Trusts create and achieve:🔅 Effective Public Health Campaigns, for conditions including Stroke, Cancer, COPD, HN51, and Polio🔅 Fundraising Campaigns and Donor Reports that have Increased Trust and Income🔅… Show more 🔆 Top quality imagery and visual stories are essential for healthcare organisations who want to communicate effectively. 🔆 We have helped the World Health Organisation, The United Nations, The Royal Colleges of Physicians & Nursing, and many UK NHS Trusts create and achieve:🔅 Effective Public Health Campaigns, for conditions including Stroke, Cancer, COPD, HN51, and Polio🔅 Fundraising Campaigns and Donor Reports that have Increased Trust and Income🔅 Approachable, Natural Imagery that has Improved Engagement and Recruitment🔅 Impactful Training Programmes and Materials🔅 Entertaining and Informative Editorial Features for Members🔅 Internal Communications Materials that Inform and Educate 🔅 Vibrant Event and Conference Imagery that have Helped to Increased Delegate Numbers🔆 Please message or email stories@gaiavisual.com for a no obligation chat about how I can help you create powerful and effective imagery and campaigns. Show less

I've been inspired by participatory photography since I did my first project with street kids in Jakarta in 1999 (see below).Facilitating marginalised people in telling their own stories through their own photography is a powerful process and no one does it better than Photovoice. I've initiated a couple of projects with them in the last six months, one of which is developing into a three year programme with a major London hospital with international reach.

Time Out gave me my first professional assignment in 1994, and I will always love them for that. The first book I shot - during three sweltering summer months in Madrid - changed my life, and helped me fulfil the dream of living a life of travel, adventure and photography. Since then I've shot around fifty books and countless features for them: City Guides to New York, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Sydney, Florence, Paris, and umpteen different guides… Show more Time Out gave me my first professional assignment in 1994, and I will always love them for that. The first book I shot - during three sweltering summer months in Madrid - changed my life, and helped me fulfil the dream of living a life of travel, adventure and photography. Since then I've shot around fifty books and countless features for them: City Guides to New York, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Sydney, Florence, Paris, and umpteen different guides to London. Show less

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One night in 1998, I was photographing protestors throwing rocks and petrol bombs at ranks of police on the streets of Jakarta for the Associated Press. A small barefooted boy pushed past me with a grin, dragging a bucket of rocks through the broken glass and rubble for people at the front line. I was fascinated, and became friendly with a few street kids and started to think how amazing it would be to see the world through their eyes...through their photographs. Once I'd… Show more One night in 1998, I was photographing protestors throwing rocks and petrol bombs at ranks of police on the streets of Jakarta for the Associated Press. A small barefooted boy pushed past me with a grin, dragging a bucket of rocks through the broken glass and rubble for people at the front line. I was fascinated, and became friendly with a few street kids and started to think how amazing it would be to see the world through their eyes...through their photographs. Once I'd decided to do a project giving them cameras, people came to me from nowhere almost every day to offer help, facilities and money. So my idea for a small project for the walls of a drop in centre turned in to A Child's Eye, a small NGO that conducted three projects. We worked with street and scavenger children in Jakarta, young people from different ethnic groups that had been involved in horrible communal violence in Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), and with young people separated from their families by the tsunami and the conflict in Aceh.We had over 100 young people in our workshops in total, and were partnered or supported by Save the Children UK, UNICEF, The British Council, and numerous local partner NGOs.One of the biggest highlights was the morning that 45 street kids came hurtling into the National Gallery of Indonesia, saw their photograph and stories printed large on the walls, and skidded to a cartoon halt. The looks of astonishment and delight on their faces stay with me to this day. Show less

In 1998, I was doing a restaurant guide to London for Time Out, and I'd been thinking of going to Indonesia for months. One week, I had a recurring dream of pouring rain, palm trees and a voice calling me. When I woke up after the third time, I booked a ticket and left a week later. I arrived in Jakarta with one phone number of a friend of a friend of a friend, and a slightly naive desire to bear witness to a pivotal, traumatic time of transition in a country I love.Two… Show more In 1998, I was doing a restaurant guide to London for Time Out, and I'd been thinking of going to Indonesia for months. One week, I had a recurring dream of pouring rain, palm trees and a voice calling me. When I woke up after the third time, I booked a ticket and left a week later. I arrived in Jakarta with one phone number of a friend of a friend of a friend, and a slightly naive desire to bear witness to a pivotal, traumatic time of transition in a country I love.Two days after I arrived I bumped into a photographer on the street, who turned out to be the senior regional snapper for AP in the region. Three weeks later, after a series of extraordinary events, I ended up running the photo desk while the staff photographer was on assignment in eastern Indonesia.I spent the next two intense, inspiring and emotional years photographing Indonesia's journey to her first elected president, as well as spending a couple of months in East Timor in the aftermath of the violence and destruction that followed the country's vote for independence. Show less