documenting community health

Over the past four years, I’ve worked alongside clinicians, researchers and community health teams across Africa, documenting projects focused on epilepsy, palliative care and access to healthcare. Each project has shared the same aim: to tell the human stories behind global health, bring visibility to local realities, and highlight the work being done to make healthcare more accessible.

the Mfuwe epilepsy project

Following completion of my Neuroscience degree, I joined the Mfuwe Epilepsy Project team in rural Zambia, helping to establish EEG infrastructure at the local clinic. The project brought much-needed neurological diagnostic capacity to a community with limited access to epilepsy care, while giving me my first opportunity to document how research and collaboration can translate into meaningful change on the ground.

pray for me

While documenting Marangu Hospital and its palliative care programme, I joined the chaplain, head nurse and healthcare workers on home visits to patients in the final stages of cancer. With little access to early screening or treatment, the team could often offer only pain relief, presence and compassion. In some homes, all that was left to do was pray. These photographs document the lives and experiences of patients receiving palliative care, the devotion of those caring for them, and the difficult reality of providing care where medical options are profoundly limited.

africa amini

In Tanzania, I documented the Africa Amini Clinic which serves rural communities around Momella. Combining modern medicine with traditional healthcare practices, the clinic provides screening, treatment and preventative care in communities where access to healthcare is often limited. The series also extends to the Africa Amini Secondary School, where education and opportunity are treated as equally important foundations for long-term community wellbeing. Because just as early healthcare can change the outcome of an illness, early opportunity can change the trajectory of a life.