I am currently the Director of a non-profit organisation I cofounded in 2000 called ‘PhotoVoice’ (www.photovoice.org). PhotoVoice is the only organisation of its kind in Europe which uses the medium of photography to empower marginalised groups within the sphere of international development.
Over the past seven years I have personally initiated, led, often fundraised for and run training workshops in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Macedonia, Russia and the UK, training groups of women living with HIV, street children, orphans, disabled youth and homeless people in photographic skills. At PhotoVoice I have in the past documented a number of the photography projects using video and have scripted and produced short documentaries and presentations. Collaborations have included with the Community Channel, the National Geographic Channel and the BBC. I have managed a project training indigenous groups in Cambodia in digital story-telling techniques. Their short personal 3 – 5 minute films using their own still images were distributed world-wide through NGO networks. At the BBC World Service Trust I managed and implemented the worldwide distribution of an award-winning documentary ‘New Face of Leprosy’, including to many developing country broadcasters.
