My favourite thing to photograph are faces. I like people. Often I think its people who make the picture.

A famous photographer once said, he found faces the most interesting thing to photograph, because for him, the human eyes are like lakes and the nose and contours of the faces like roaming hills.  

I love to photograph faces because their so alive, they express something pure, something of the truth of the subject. The creases of our faces give us up.  

Here are some of my favourite faces from my recent trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo with non-profit Menelik Education.

I am very proud to say that three of my photographs from a recent trip to the Democractic Republic of Congo with non-profit Menelik Education have been made into postcards! Here are the choosen photographs.

Tiny Bon Bon stands amongst the shadows of a classroom in the Lembo-Menelik International Academy

Three young girls fascinated by the camera stare across a desk of the Lembo-Menelik International Academy

The streets of Kinshasa, as seen through the window of a Congolese taxi

Conflict and instability make the Democratic Republic of Congo a difficult place to be pregnant

AllAfrica.com

“Years of conflict and instability mean the Democratic Republic of Congo is still among the worst countries in the world to be pregnant, despite a nationwide push to improve maternal, infant and childhood mortality rates. ‘Every hour of every day in DRC, four women die from complications of pregnancy and labour, and for every woman who dies, between 20 and 30 have serious complications, such as obstetric fistula, which is very common in DRC,’ said Richard Dackam Ngacthou, country representative of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA)…”

Read the full article here.