Amy Brathwaite
For the past 7 years, I’ve been working abroad for the United Nations (UNDP, UNAC and UN OCHA) and Save the Children to support disaster response, humanitarian aid and health programming in Tanzania, Bangladesh, Indonesia and most recently Haiti. While my personal and professional experiences have been centred around development and humanitarian work, photography has been a conduit for me to express and explain the stories, people, conditions and unexpected beauty of the countries I’ve been fortunate to work in - the way golden dusk illuminates the wreckage of a collapsed building; the silhouette of riders atop of an early morning train; the vibrant colours of dala dalas in Tanzania; a bustling marketplace imbrued with colour and joyful faces; or a child flying a kite atop a tumbled home in Port-au-Prince.
Living and working abroad have forever changed my perspective, enriched and enabled me to grow enormously from the people and cultures in which I’ve been immersed. At Visual Hues, my approach is to capture inherent and timeless pictures using natural light and beautiful surroundings to highlight key moments or events in a person’s life. I’m excited to bring this tapestry of experience to a new genre of photography, to continue to tell stories through the lens and to get to know my country again.
Amy's Blog: hues.co/amyb
