Photojournalism focused on complex issues, conflicts but most of all on people.
Browse recent projects below.
Kids sniffing Solvent in Aroma, Tondo. Tondo is located in the north-west portion of Manila and is primarily residential-industrial in nature. Tondo is known for being one of the poorest and most underdeveloped areas of the country. The inhaling of some solvents can cause hearing loss, limb spasms, and damage to the central nervous system and brain. Serious but potentially reversible effects include liver and kidney damage and blood-oxygen depletion. Death from inhalants is generally caused by a very high concentration of fumes.
8 year old Abhi working with shovel coal in the small village of Golardin.
The drum used for color the leather.
Child labor, Jharia
Workers taking skin out of chemical bath. Savar Tannery Industrial Estate.
Loading the motor bike with buckets filled with oil, selling for the refineries…
Patrolling in the Donetsk region,special detachment, anti diversion activity.
The body of an unidentified man discovered by the police in Metro Manila. The victim had several gunshot wounds and according to the police a suspect of selling drugs.
Funeral of Edward who was a shot in a police operation in the Philippines' war on drugs. Edward and his cousin Billy Joe was killed during a police operation in Bagong Silang, police were looking for a suspect and six people were shot. Edward and his cousin Billy Joe was never suspected or even appeared on some so-called drug list.
The body of an unidentified man found in Pasay city, Metro Manila. On the head was a sign attached saying "wag tularan holdaper, adik ini at pusher ini (barker) dili pamarisan piste amo", which means "do not imitate addicts, muggers and pushers".
In Pasay city jail a prisoner are being search for contraband before being transfer to another jail.
Two professional killers from the province, metro manila.
Because none of the workers have the technique to see where the oil is, they all drill in blindness, it takes several days to drill a hole manually and is no oil they continue to drill elsewhere. To operate an oil rig, licenses must be purchased at heavily varied prices and corruption is high among the officials. Many workers choose to defy the law and drill without permission.
With oil rigs just a few meters apart and indebted workers, there are often violent conflicts between those working on the different oil rigs.
The toxic gases around the crater are concentrated sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide gases which measure 40 times higher than can be considered acceptable for humans. The miners risk irreparable damage to the lungs and the reproduction system, as a continuous exposure causes the miners' teeth to slowly dissolve.
Miner working in clouds of sulfur.
The toxic gases around the crater are concentrated sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide gases which measure 40 times higher than can be considered acceptable for humans. The miners risk irreparable damage to the lungs and the reproduction system, as a continuous exposure causes the miners' teeth to slowly dissolve.
Two get to the very bottom of the mine the workers have to rock climb the last 7 meters on the wet walls of the mine…
Every miners think every day about finding a big piece of gold that can give him wealth so he can stop working in the mine. Those who actually finds fortune never stop looking, but instead works harder to find more.
Free Syrien Army ( FSA) sniper in the Old Quarter of Aleppo. Aleppo, Syria 2012.11.28
A fisherman's family is sleeping on the concrete bridge next to the water, it is cooler on the bridge with the wind from the sea than in its densely built wooden houses along the coast.