My photos have been published by Reuters, the Sunday Times, the Washington Post, CNN International, VICE, VICE News, the New York Times, ELLE, the Guardian, TIME, National Geographic, Associated Press, Newsweek, Der Spiegel, the Wall Street Journal, the Intercept, RFI, Al Monitor, the Irish Times, HBO, L’Orient-Le Jour, ZEIT Online, Marie Claire, BBC, NPR, Deutsche Welle, Lonely Planet, Rolling Stone, Forbes, Bloomberg, HUCK, ABC, La Repubblica, NZZ, Europa Press, Sky News, SBS, Al Jazeera, the Daily Mail, Slate, RTE, the Scientific American, the Huffington Post, IRIN News, France Culture, CNBC, US News & World Report, the New Internationalist, Arte, the Mail & Guardian, the Atlantic’s Citylab, PRI, Hurriyet, ZDF, Welt, Bild, the San Francisco Examiner, SME, Stellar magazine, Image, Expresso, the Evening Standard, Newstalk and in various books and textbooks.
One of my photos from covering the fall of the Assad regime in Syria was named a UK Times/Sunday Times ‘photo that defined the year’, 2024.
Awards include receiving full funding for a Magnum Photos Professional Practice Weekend and winning the Suas 8×8 Photography Competition.
I was selected for the Eddie Adams Workshop in 2025.
My work has also been exhibited in the Pompidou Centre in Paris; in German government offices in Berlin; and at EPIC, the Irish Emigration Museum, in Dublin.
From 2012-13 I worked as an events photographer for University College Dublin, where my photos documenting student life were used for promotional purposes.
Female mourners hold up the deceased Hezbollah fighters’ photos during a funeral in Souaneh for five fighters killed in an Israeli attack. A 60-day ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, which came into force on November 27, 2024, allows families to return and hold proper funerals for victims, many of whom were temporarily buried or kept in healthcare facilities.
A wooden boat with 26 people was found by the Geo Barents crew of Médecins Sans Frontières ship in the Libyan search and rescue area of the Central Mediterranean in the morning on August 3, 2024. Most of those on board were from Bangladesh. More than 30,000 people have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean Sea since 2014 while trying to reach Europe, according to figures collected by the International Organisation for Migration – and the real figures may be much higher.
A fire broke out in the night of March 24th at Susan’s bay in Freetown, Sierra Leone. As many as 5,000 people were left homeless, according to the government.
A boy seen laying on a desk in an empty classroom of aMaiduguri primary school.
Northeast Nigeria has been experiencing an insurgency since 2009, which has led to 2.4 million people being displaced and roughly half of school students having to leave education.
World Health Organization worker Belinda Landu, 28, changes her protective outfit after decontaminating the house of a pastor who has just tested positive for Ebola in Beni.
The DRC is currently experiencing the second largest Ebola outbreak in recorded history, and the response is hampered by it being in an active conflict zone. More than 1,400 people have died since August 2018.
Anisa sits in her partially destroyed home on the day her son is buried in a mass funeral.
A mass funeral was held in Aitaroun, southern Lebanon, for 95 people who died in the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. The casualties included Hezbollah fighters, civil defense rescuers, civilians, and children.
Soldiers stand over a man they found outside during curfew hours amid coronavirus crisis in Gulu, northern Uganda. Uganda’s coronavirus-related curfew meant citizens had to be at home between 7pm and 6.30am.
Khadija Asam Ibrahim, 34-years old, said she spent days at the Tishreen Dam protesting against Turkish attacks. “We are volunteers, people of the region,” she said. Medics and journalists have been among those killed in attacks on the Tishreen Dam and its vicinity, which is a flashpoint in ongoing fighting between the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
Girls chat in a dormitory for unaccompanied minors in Shagarab camp. Tens of thousands of refugees live across the camps, after escaping mandatory, unending military service and repression in their home country. Young females are more at risk of kidnapping and sexual exploitation, meaning smugglers will charge them more if they want to leave the camps.
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