We strive for to create images that drive social change around the world.We believe that the profit and nonprofit organizations working to drive social change will see more effective results in telling their stories with the use of high quality photography.

We also believe in the profound and transformative power of visual imagery to provoke, question, and inspire action.

Our images are tools by which we facilitate collaboration between multistakeholders, with the ultimate goal of improving the lives of vulnerable individuals, families, and communities.

Our pictures should serve as a catalyst for opening minds, altering entrenched behaviors, and engaging viewers in dialogue and action around critical social and environmental issues.

17 Goals to Transform Our World

Governments, businesses and civil society together with the United Nations have started to mobilize efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Agenda by 2030. Universal, inclusive and indivisible, the Agenda calls for action by all countries to improve the lives of people everywhere.

In 2015, countries adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals. In 2016, the Paris Agreement on climate change entered into force, addressing the need to limit the rise of global temperatures.

Major UN Partners:

• UNDP – United Nations Development Program
  Millennium Campaign
• UNDESA – UN Department of Economic & Social Affairs
• World Bank
• UNICEF – UN Children’s Fund
• UNEP http://www.unep.org/ – UN Environment Program
• UNFPA – UN Population Fund
• WHO – World Health Organization
• IMF – International Monetary Fund
• UN-HABITAT – UN Human Settlements Program
• FAO http://www.fao.org/index_en.htm – Food & Agriculture Organization
• IFAD – International Fund for Agricultural Development
• ILO – International Labor Organization
• ITU – International Telecommunications Union
• UNAIDS – Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS
• UNCTAD – UN Conference on Trade and Development
• UNDG – UN Development Group
• UNESCO – UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
• UNHCR – UN Refugee Agency
• UNIDO – UN Industrial Development Organization
• UN Women – UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
• OHCHR – Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
• WFP – World Food Program
• WMO – World Meteorological Organization
• WTO - World Trade Organization
• UNWTO – World Tourism Organization
• UNOSDP – UN Office on Sport for Development and Peace

WHO We have been covering health issues for the World Health Organization such as:

• reproductive health,
• fistula vaccination,
• road safety,
• HIV/AIDS,
• polio,
• malaria,
• tuberculosis – DOTS,
• leprosy,
• various tropical diseases such as buruli ulcer,
• elephantiasis or Guinea worms,
• blood safety,
• food safety,
• road safety,
• water issues,
• tobacco,
• air pollution,
• habitat,
• mental health,
• disabilities,
• traditional medicine – Tai Chi,
• pharmaceutical and medical research in countries such as Nigeria, Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, Ethiopia, India and China.

UNAIDS We have also undertaken specialized work on HIV/AIDS issues for UNAIDS, creating a photographic methodology in various countries in the Middles East from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Israel-Palestine, Iran through Pakistan, and in Western Africa from Senegal, Mali, and Ghana up to Djibouti.

ITU Another UN actor we work for is the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), for whom we covered communication issues in Colombia and Qatar.

At Geneva, we covered assignments for most of the UN system, from the IOM to WMO as well as UNDP, UNCTAD and the WTO.

We are constantly inspired by the profound fortitude of people living in difficult conditions and the empathy and commitment of the many who give counsel and aid to those less fortunate.
We believe it is our moral obligation to use whatever talents we have as photographers to transcend our limited worldviews and to help bridge the gap between cultures of affluence and poverty.

Photography is a universal language and it is our hope that our images will move viewers to respond not only with empathy, but also with action. It is our intention to photograph people with compassion and dignity in the hope of communicating our interrelatedness.

I had the chance to work for Sebastião Salgado at WHO in Geneva and many of us remember his saying “If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture. That is my way of seeing things.”