Humanity Over Ego: Notes from the Field

Essays · Oct 02, 2025 · 5 min read

Humanity Over Ego: Notes from the Field

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Why I lower the camera more often than I raise it.

The best photograph I never took was of a woman in Bawku, weeping over a letter. I lowered the camera. I sat down. We drank water together for forty minutes. That is the photograph. The camera was incidental.

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