The stories that matter most are often the hardest to learn.

There is a particular kind of story that history rarely remembers. It's not the stories of famous leaders or revered landmarks, of conflict or protest. It is the stories of ordinary people, living ordinary lives, that quietly disappear with the passage of time.

But those are the stories that I have been documenting for more than thirty years.

Across six continents and more than fifty countries, I have travelled to the places most people don't reach, meeting the communities who have no reason to open their doors, to document the beautifully unscripted moments of everyday life I encountered before they are forgotten.

It is the record that history won't otherwise keep.

After more than thirty years in the field, I have built a substantial body of work that will be published in a series of forthcoming books. Each is a sustained record of how ordinary people live, in places and circumstances the world rarely pauses to consider.

The first, Still Here, will be released in 2026, drawing on my time spent among the remote communities of eastern and southern Africa, documenting how those communities address modernity, change, and the continuity of culture. A second book, Witness, is in development: twelve people, drawn from every level of human society across the world, open a single day of their lives to the camera and the notebook, from those who navigate the corridors of power to those in the margins of survival.

I serve as Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Migration Agency (IOM) for the East, Horn and Southern Africa region, advocating for those whose stories are rarely told on one of the defining issues of our time. I hold press accreditations from the International Federation of Journalists and the National Union of Journalists. I have delivered a TEDx talk on exploring humanity, and I work regularly with NGOs and institutions whose missions touch the lives of ordinary communities.