PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT

In a world where images make all of us real-time witnesses to events worldwide, those images have become documents of history. They are, as they always were, critical to that history. As we see disasters, man-made or natural, there is very little time to see the response to those problems. It has been my goal to document the response to those problems, especially for the United Nations and very particularly for the UN World Food Programme. I also tried to peek into different cultures with an eye toward the common emotions we humans share. It has been thrilling to meet and photograph so many wonderful faces and scenes and to walk through so many different countries. I hope as you look at the images here you will see a bit more of how this world looks and lives.

Tom Haskell