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Documentary Landscapes Life Photos June 29, 2022

Seven Minutes

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 to renovate the hospital, but the funding was sparse. My room was a barren, concrete box with no electricity and no running water. Hopefully I would be able to fix that during the renovations. I hadn’t been there long when one night, around two in the…

Landscapes Life January 30, 2019

I got a[nother] drone and it changed my life.

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…

Documentary Landscapes Life December 26, 2018

Walikale

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…

Crystal Stafford, Virunga National Park, DRC, Congo

Documentary Landscapes Life December 20, 2018

The Most Dangerous Thing I’ve Ever Done

“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,…