Cesarean Section
A patient waits for a cesarean section. #Somalia suffers some of the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world. Most women give birth at home and receive no prenatal care. Photo by Roopa Gogineni @rgogineni
Year: 2014
A Nurse
A nurse scrubs in at Medina hospital in #Mogadishu. Throughout the war in #Somalia the city’s trauma hospital maintained neutrality, treating members of al Shabaab in the same ward as victims of their car bombs and IEDs. Photo by Roopa Gogineni @rgogineni
Somali Poet
Abdiqani, a young Somali poet records an ode to #Mogadishu at a local radio station. “I will never stop making poems for Mogadishu, I love it as a mother loves her only son.” The Somali language was unwritten until 1973, #poetry and the #radio are two bedrocks of life here. Photo by Roopa Gogineni @rgogineni
Falling Into Place: Self Portraits by Patricia Lay-Dorsey
Patricia sings as her husband Ed plays in a nightly ritual in their home in Detroit. Photo by David Alan Harvey Conversation with Patrica Lay-Dorsey Author of Falling Into Place: Self Portraits Detroit-based artist Patricia Lay-Dorsey was diagnosed with chronic progressive Multiple Sclerosis in 1988. Twenty years later she turned her camera on …
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Pearl of the Indian Ocean
Upon #Mogadishu, pearl of the Indian Ocean. Photo by Roopa Gogineni @rgogineni
First photo, 4:30am in Nairobi
Hello! I’m Roopa Gogineni, a photojournalist based in Nairobi, Kenya. Thrilled to instagram this week for@burndiary, on assignment in Mogadishu making a photo and video portrait of the city and the people who call it home. I’ve been working in Somalia since 2011 when al Shabaab still controlled parts of the capital city. Nearly two …
Slemish Mountain
This is my last post following a week on BURN Diary. I hope it’s ok if I share another image here from Slemish mountain, one of my favourite places. To me, it stands for the best of Northern Ireland: green hills and awe inspiring countryside. Hope you’ve enjoyed this very quick tour of County Antrim, …
High flying Wilson Crispim
I am shooting heavy now in Rio for my upcoming Beach Games tabloid. High flying Wilson Crispim , 20, is a parkour artist. He was one of my photo students yesterday for underprivileged yet serious photographers. Wilson makes death defying jumps that appear impossible even when witnessing. A for real Superman.
Samson and Goliath
One of Belfast’s famous twin yellow cranes, known as Samson and Goliath, in the docks area close to the city centre. Photo by Judith Cole (@judyacole).