#DRC2011
The elections have already been wrought with irregularities.
// Photograph taken in Goma, DRC
Congo’s Elections
Tomorrow are the second ever democratic elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo. There has been violence leading up to these elections and suspicions by the international community if they will be fair. This is a critical moment for the nation and the over 70million people who call Congo home. To read a few thoughtful [...]
Hunger in America
I had the privilege of going to New Mexico with Share Our Strength to document hunger in America. 1 in every 4 children in the United States is at risk of hunger or is food insecure. 1 in every 4. Share Our Strength is working to combat this figure by creating access to meal programs [...]
Happy Birthday South Sudan
Today we welcome the newest nation to the world: South Sudan. After decades of civil war, this marks, hopefully, a beginning of something good and new in a place that so deserves it. I celebrate the Sudanese and this advent of freedom and hope for peace to last.
// Photograph taken in Nzarra, South Sudan.
Congo River
The meandering waters pointed toward the quiet newness that slept next to me in the UN helicopter. A child, free.
// Photograph taken en route from Kindu to Kisangani, DR Congo
A Mutual Humanity
The LRA is in this region, spreading fear and pain and despair. I am currently working on a short piece sharing the brave words of Sister Giovanna who has lived in the midst of LRA violence the last 25 years. Her urge to celebrate each other’s humanity by protecting one another remind me of Desmond [...]
Preventing HIV in DRC
In April I spent three weeks in Eastern DRC. The first part of the trip I spent documenting both the effects and prevention of HIV/AIDS. We looked at how to prevent the transmission of HIV from mother to child and from sexual violence, as well as how to care for children living with the virus. [...]
Congo [Collection]
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// Photograph taken at Heal Africa in Goma, DR Congo. A street child waits for his friend outside the ER, who was beaten nearly to death minutes earlier.
// Photograph taken in a UN helicopter en route from Kindu to Kisangani, DR Congo. A man part of the Congolese national army surveys the Congolese rain forest [...]
A Tapestry
// Photographs taken in: Gikomero (Rwanda), Marsabit (Kenya), Angola, Boma (Sudan) and PAP (Haiti).
Future
Child, may your past not dictate your future. Would there not be relief for you?
// Photograph taken in Yambio, Southern Sudan. A group of former child soldiers wait to be reunified with their families.
Thoughts [A Series]
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“We look for light, but all is darkness, for brightness, but we walk in deep shadow.”
Isaiah 59.9
// Photograph taken in Calang, Indonesia.
Thoughts [A Series]
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The creativity of a caregiver, the safety of an offered childhood.
// Photograph taken in Piswa, Uganda.
Thoughts [A Series]
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She endured an earthquake and a Tsunami, bearing the weight of her children’s futures and refusing to indulge despair. Instead of abandoning her land after the flooding and destruction, she re-built it all herself, and planted a garden that now is a model plot for her community, overwhelming her with its fruitfulness. And as she [...]
Thoughts [A Series]
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Often, in places overwhelmed by acute human pain, moments of natural beauty are a sensory sensation, an awakening of the hope of Good that is necessary to survive.
// Photograph taken in the Chalbi Desert, Northern Kenya
Circling
Today I find myself hoping to circle to truth through story, as John Lederach writes.
// Photograph taken in Gikomero, Rwanda
Renewal
The Tsunami swept over this beach in 2004. Everything was destroyed. Today, children play again.
// Photograph take in Calang, Aceh, Indonesia
A Bit of Beauty
A Bit of Beauty from Lindsay Branham on Vimeo.
// Footage taken in DR Congo and Angola
Shadow
Today I exist in the tension between darkness and light.
One year since the earthquake in Haiti. Has anything changed?
This is little Estalline.
// Photograph taken in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Lespwa // Hope
There is lespwa still. Though shrouded beneath layers of disaster. The Haitian people defy the world with their dignity and strength.
// Photograph taken in the streets of Port-au-Prince just days after the Jan. 12th earthquake.
Now Free
This boy was taken by force by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Northern Congo and forced to do horrific things as a child soldier. Here he recalls memories of death, and describes hope for a new life now that he is free.
// Photograph taken in Yambio, Southern Sudan.
Safety
Three children run and play in Makpandu refugee camp in Southern Sudan. These beauties have fled the Lord’s Resistance Army. And here in safety they play.
// Photograph taken in Makpandu, Southern Sudan.
