Select highlights from various editorial projects

Deported and Imprisoned: The Venezuelans Trump Imprisoned in El Salvador

A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of the region’s most notorious maximum-security prisons.

Role: Visual Research and Photo Editor

 

What I Witnessed as I Photographed the Disappearances and the Homecomings of My Countrymen

Over four months, photojournalist Adriana Loureiro Fernández documented the lives of five families whose sons had been imprisoned in El Salvador, including their long-awaited reunions. CECOT left a mark on the men, their loved ones and Venezuela.

Role: Photo Editor

Digital Divinity: Ancient traditions meet modern technology

An illustrated storybook exploring the intersection of technology and religion around the world, featuring 22 stories, across five chapters, with immersive, medieval-inspired illustration by Glenn Harvey.

Role: Project and Art Director

 
 
 

Video Series: Gig Workers Rising

A four-part video series looking at how workers are uniting to rewrite the rules of the global gig economy in Vietnam, Mexico, South Africa, and India.

Role: Executive Producer

The R&K Guide To Lisbon

Role: Photographer, Editor, Art Director

 

The R&K Guide To Charleston

Role: Photographer, Editor, Art Director

 

Photobook: Live From Boca Grande

A photobook by Erin Krall following inspiration from Joan Didion’s world of fiction.

Role: Photo Editor

 

How AI reduces the world to stereotypes

Rest of World analyzed 3,000 AI images to see how image generators visualize different countries and cultures.

Awards: Online Journalism Awards, Winner, Topical Reporting: Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Identity, small newsroom; Society For News Design 45: Bronze medal, Design - Social Issues; ASME – National Magazine Awards 2024, Winner, Design

Role: Art Director

Inside Foxconn’s struggle to make iPhones in India

Chinese engineers are flying to India to train the next generation of iPhone builders.

Role: Photo Editor

Tears of a get-rich-quick guru

Influencers like Sunny Ali promote the Amazon seller dream, but not everyone buys the hustlepreneur fantasy.

Role: Photo Editor

Can a church exist exclusively on the internet?

Inside the emerging virtual-preaching economy in internet-obsessed Kenya.

Role: Photo Editor

Connection unstable: Kashmir’s influencers seek internet fame but can’t get online

Faced with frequent government-led blackouts, content creators in India-administered Kashmir keep posting.

Role: Photo Editor

Traffic laws can’t keep up with Mexico City’s electric mopeds

Chinese-made mopeds have become popular in the traffic-clogged city, but users and manufacturers aren’t sure which laws apply to them.

Role: Photo Editor

Nothing could slow inDriver’s rise from Siberian startup to global Uber competitor. Then Russia invaded Ukraine

InDriver’s unique haggling feature has seen it expand from its roots in Yakutia to markets around the world.

Role: Photo Editor

Destined for clicks: YouTube is driving an astrology boom in Pakistan

Pakistanis are looking for certainty. Astrologers on YouTube want to help.

Role: Photo and Art Director

 

The changing face of protest

Mass protests used to offer a degree of safety in numbers. Facial recognition technology changes the equation.

Role: Art and Graphics Director

 

The dirty road to clean energy: How China’s electric vehicle boom is ravaging the environment

In neighboring Indonesia, nickel extraction is causing environmental and social devastation.

Role: Photo and Graphics Editor

The race to put Indigenous land on the map

In Borneo, Indigenous communities are using mapping tech to claim their land rights and fight the expansion of oil palm plantations.

Role: Photo and Graphics Editor

 

Welcome to Ambaniverse

From food to gadgets to sports, explore how the business empire of one of the world’s richest men touches the everyday lives of millions in India.

Awards: Society for News Design 44: Award of Excellence; ASME – National Magazine Awards 2023: Finalist, Design.

Role: Art Director

 

In the dark

Seven years, 60 countries, 935 internet shutdowns: How authoritarian regimes found an off switch for dissent.

Awards: Society for News Design 44 Award of Excellence, National Magazine Awards 2023 Finalist, Design

Role: Art and Graphics Director

Inside the world’s biggest tech bazaars

Awards: Society for News Design 44 Award of Excellence

Role: Project and Photo Editor

The World’s Last Internet Cafes

Role: Project and Photo Editor

 

At home with Asia’s shopping influencers

Society For News Design 45: Award of Excellence

Pictures of the Year International: Award of Excellence, Documentary Daily Life

Role: Producer

 

Step into my (home) office

Awards: Society for News Design 2020: Award of Excellence: Portfolio, Art Direction; Society for News Design 43, Award of Excellence: Use of Photography

Role: Project and Photo Editor