George Jefferies 11/24/24 George Jefferies 11/24/24

On Assignment - Photographing Malaria Prevention for WHO, Stung Treng, Cambodia

Sophal and his team return home on boats after a community visit to a remote village

Sophal leaves Siem Pang Health Center to go on a community visit

Sophal drives out of Siem Pang Health Center on his motorbike to go on a community visit

Sophal and health center staff check malaria information at Siem Pang Health Center

Sophal does a stock take of malaria prevention medicine at Siem Pang Health Center

Sophal reviews malaria record with his team in a remote village

Sophal monitors a training session about malaria prevention in a remote community

Sophal speaks to a community about malaria prevention

Sophal in discussion with a WHO team member on a small ferry to a remote village where they work

Sophal sits on a small boat as he return to Siem Pang after a community visit

Sophal works on his masters on his computer late at night

It’s always a pleasure to get of Phnom Penh on assignment and this job was no exception. The brief was to produce a series of 25 photos for the World Health Organization about Sophal for their WHO’s Who series to commemorate their 75th anniversary of providing health for all.

The series was to highlight some of vital work done by some of the key healtcare workers around the world.

Sophal works in malaria prevention and has dedicated himself to preventing malaria in the remote parts of Stung Treng, which are high risk areas.

Sophal was a great choice for the photography series and he is dedicated to his work and he’s very respected within the communities he works in. He led a fundraising campaign when one of his team lost their house through fire. On another occasion, he donated blood to one of his community health workers’ wives after being alerted to the need in the middle of the night.

He’s also studying for a masters in public health in his spare time.

It was a busy day photographing Sophal. We arrived at Siem Pang Health Center early in the morning where Sophal met with the local health centre workers, checked malaria records and did a stock take of the preventative medicine before travelling into the community.

Working in remote villages, we had to take a ferry an ox and cart and small boat to reach the most remote village.

When we got to the community, Sophal checked the records and spoke to his team of community health workers.

From there, his team went into the community to provide training to the village and to check on people who had recently returned from the forest to give them preventative medicine.

The team managed to get all of this done before a storm blew in and the heavens opened.

You can see other examples of my NGO photography for the World Health Organization here and here.

George Jefferies 2/6/23 George Jefferies 2/6/23

NGO Photographer in Siem Reap | On Assignment for Kiva

Seap Rain looking at her ACE cooking stove bought using a loan from the NGO Kiva, Siem Reap, Cambodia

San Sotheary looking through the flames of her ACE cooker, photo assignment for the NGO Kiva in Siem Reap

San Sotheary uses her ACE cooking stove to cook soup, Siem Reap, Cambodia

A close up of San Sotheary's soup she cooked using the ACE cooker. Photo taken for the NGO Kiva in Siem Reap

Nil Thach cooks soup using a stove provided by NGO kiva, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Leam Salao puts wood on her stove bought using a loan from NGO Kiva, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Portrait of Seap Raim stood by a pile of wood

Leam Salao cleans the counter of her coffee shop

Rim Ren tends to her farm. The photo was taken in Siem Reap when working as a photographer and videographer for the NGO Kiva

Leam Salao sits outside her house by her ACE stove she bought using a loan from the NGO Kiva

San Sotheary show off the produce she bought at the market

A portrait of Seap Raim taken while working as a photographer and videographer for the NGO Kiva in Siem Reap

San Sotheary walks home from the market with produce to cook on her ACE stove

Heng Vichet cooks using his ACE stove he bought using a loan from the NGO Kiva, Siem Reap, Cambodia

A portrait of Heng Vichet smiling in his kitchen

Rim Ren picks spring onions from her garden

Heng Vichet teaches a class, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Heng Vichet checks students homework at his desk in the classroom

It was a great opportunity to work as a photographer and videographer with international NGO Kiva in Siem Reap, Cambodia. I spent two days photographing and filming a series of case studies about people who have taken out loans offered by Kiva to buy a cooking stove made by the social enterprise ACE. It was my first job through Storyhunter and will hopefully be the first of many.

The ACE stove is a great invention. It’s very efficient and within no time at all after turning the stove on and adding the biomass fuel there is a roaring fire that is hot enough to cook rice, stir fries and soups. The stove comes with a solar panel, so it perfect for people living off grid. It also has a USB port so it can be used to charge phones and other battery-powered electric devices and it’s smoke-less, so it’s a cheaper, quicker and healthier alternative to using charcoal which is commonly used in Cambodia.

It’s great to see how such a seemingly small thing can help improve people’s finances, save them time (if they collected fire wood) and contribute to improving their lives. The kind hospitality of the Khmer people is second-to-none. Everyone of the people we filmed and photographed invited us into their homes with open arms, were patient and had a good laugh. It really is one thing about Cambodia that makes the job easy, rewarding and fun.

Above are a selection of images from the couple of days I spent filming case studies and taking photos. You can see more examples of my work as an NGO photographer here and here.

George Jefferies 3/29/21 George Jefferies 3/29/21

Aerial Drone Photography of salt flats in Tamil Nadu, India

Looking back through the archives, I found some drone photography of the salt flats outside Pondicherry in Tamil Nadu, Southern India. I was lucky enough to get to travel there while working as a videographer for Wild Frontiers. I like the lines and the geometrical shapes of the salt flats when seen from above.

I often use the drone to shoot video and take photographs as a afterthought. I plan to spend more time looking at the creative possibilities and using drone to focus solely on aerial photography.

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George Jefferies 4/27/20 George Jefferies 4/27/20

360º aerial video and photo panoramas for Rulai

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I was commissioned by Rulai to shoot 8 video and 8 360º photo panoramas of 2 condos that are being built in BKK1, Phnom Penh.

I used a drone to photograph the images at the exact height of the 10th, 20th, 30th and 40th floors to show prospective clients the view they will have, before the condo has been built.

I stitched the images together, lined all the images up so they had the same centre point, made all the images the same size, cloned in sections that were missing and colour graded all the images.

It would be great to do more this kind of project. I’m also interested in mounting a 360º camera to the drone and shooting VR video from the skies.