Blog and Portfolio by Crystal Stafford
When I first met Mado in Febraury of 2016, she was a little over two years old. She was so severely malnourished that she couldn’t walk or even stand. She sat in her mother’s lap, lethargic and still. Her arms barely larger than my thumb in diameter. We were there with a team of community health workers, called RECOs in DRC, who had recently been scouring the village, going to every single…
SEVEN MINUTES I was living in a hospital in Kananga in Kasai Central Province in 2012, shortly before the start of ASSP. My church hired me…
Today, Playa Guiones reopens after COVID 19 pandemic. We gathered ourselves up at first light and headed down to celebrate with the rest of the community.…
We got a rare glimpse of old world Carribean while sailing the San Blas Islands on our honeymoon. On our first night, we buoyed next to…
I must admit, photographing the beach day after day has gotten kind of old. BEING on the beach will NEVER get old for me. But these…
I traveled to this little village in Nord Kivu to interview women who have survived sexual violence. The only way to get there was by UN…
If I could have any job in the world, it wouldn’t be a photographer. It would be someone studying photography. I would just attend photography workshops…
Ahhh, this photograph brings me back, once again, to one of the most epic photographic experiences of my life, that one time in the Namib Desert…
“Isn’t it dangerous?” I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been asked some variant of the above question. Especially while living and working in Congo,…
Looking back on that magical night capturing the sunset on top of Sugar Loaf in Rio. Magic 343/365, Sugar Loaf Sunset, Rio…