Tanzania, Africa. Home to massive wilderness areas, the plains of the Serengeti and Africa’s highest mountain; Kilimanjaro.

Working with non-proft Faces4Hope, serving to help Masai women and young girls, this gallery represents moments attempting to capture the culture, lives and challenges of the people of Tanzania.

Africa is massive and massively diverse. More than 120 local dialects are spoken in and around the area and city of Arusha alone. Some tribes separated by fewer than 10 km will not speak the same language. With exceptionally harsh conditions during the dry season and little to no institutional systems to protect the most vulnerable, Tanzania was as intensely beautiful as it was difficult to understand. Many simple problems, with extremely complicated solutions, shared by hundreds of thousands of people.

I’ve never learned more on any assignment, been more challenged throughout my own human experience, or more inspired by so many, enduring so much, exhibiting so much resilience.

Camera in hand, failing to blend in and widely recognized as many in east Africa with the Swahili word for white person; ‘Mzungu.’

Translated roughly to ‘person who walks in circles.’