I photographed these women in New Delhi during a quiet moment of connection and routine. Their gestures were calm and familiar, shaped by daily practices that existed long before any crisis or hardship became visible. It reminded me that resilience often begins in ordinary moments, carried and shared among women long before the world recognizes what they endure.
India - 2014
During my research in Tangier, she paused to pray in the middle of the conversation, looking upward as if connecting with something far beyond the moment. Her gesture felt like a quiet bridge between struggle and faith, a way of grounding herself in something larger, a reminder that resilience can live in the space between what has been endured and what is still hoped for.
Morocco - 2024
These women walked barefoot through heat and dust in Araçuai, in one of Brazil’s most underserved regions. I was there documenting race, identity, and structural inequality, yet what caught my attention were the bodies that carried responsibility long before formal support ever reached them. The dust that covered their feet seemed to hold years of labor, endurance, and unspoken resilience.
Brazil - 2003
During my research in Tangier, I spoke briefly with her as she walked through the medina. She told me she was originally from a rural mountain town and that she covered herself this way to protect herself in the city. Her layered textiles seemed to carry both origin and adaptation, one life rooted elsewhere, another unfolding here, step by step, in a place very different from where she began.
Morocco - 2025
I photographed her in a remote Indigenous community in Minas Gerais while I was researching identity and inequality in Brazil. She sat quietly, studying me, her face painted as part of everyday life. In her gaze, I felt the depth of a cultural inheritance carried from childhood—strength rooted in belonging long before resilience is ever named.
Brazil - 2003
I photographed her while documenting access to public services in Araçuai, where the nearest health post served a vast rural area. She balanced these pots and pans on her head as she walked, a daily routine shaped by limited infrastructure. Her movement through the dust felt like a form of resilience itself: an everyday negotiation with distance, scarcity, and unmet needs.
Brazil - 2003
I photographed her while documenting women’s lives in India. She had come from another part of the country, carving out a future far from home. There was pride in her posture, but also something guarded in her eyes: an expression I’ve seen often among women navigating uncertainty with quiet determination.
India - 2014
In an inter-Andean valley between the altiplano and the edges of the Amazon basin, I photographed a mother with her daughters. Life here moves within traditions that have survived isolation, migration, and economic scarcity for generations. Their resilience—their ability to endure and preserve identity in a place shaped by both beauty and hardship—felt embedded in the land itself.
Peru - 2003
During my research in rural Brazil, I was invited into this cassava house where women worked side by side transforming raw cassava into farinha, a staple food across the region. The heat was intense and the labor constant, but what stayed with me most was the collective rhythm they maintained. Their work wasn’t simply production, it was continuity, a shared inheritance held and carried by women through generations.
Brazil - 2003
On my way to meet women participating in my research in Tangier, I traveled with two people from a local NGO that were helping me. Their knowledge of the city, and the trust they had earned, opened doors I couldn’t have reached alone. I was reminded that resilience is not only found in the stories of women I interview, but also in those who accompany them, support them, and help make this work possible.
Morocco - 2024
During fieldwork in India, I spoke briefly with her as she paused to eat on a busy street. She talked about the long days she spent working nearby and how much life had changed since arriving in the city years earlier. There was a matter-of-fact strength in the way she described her days, focused not on obstacles, but on simply continuing forward.
India - 2014
I photographed her while conducting research in one of the most challenging regions of Brazil, an area shaped by drought, migration, and historical inequality. She stood watching as women worked nearby, part of a younger generation growing up in a landscape that holds both hardship and deep cultural continuity.
Brazil - 2003
She was still working here every day, well into her seventies, standing for hours in the heat and dust. When we spoke, she told me she had been doing this since she was a girl, long before electricity or running water reached the area. Decades of physical labor were written across her skin, yet she moved with a steadiness that came from a lifetime of continuing on, regardless of what was demanded of her.
Brazil - 2003
These children passed by while I was speaking with women nearby. They moved through the street as if it belonged to them, weaving in and out of the crowd without hesitation. Even in childhood, daily life here asks girls and boys to navigate public space with awareness and responsibility far beyond their years.
India - 2014
A mother cleaned the courtyard while her daughter played beside her, each absorbed in their own world but never far from one another. The pace of daily life moved around them, but this small moment felt almost suspended in time, a reminder of how care and childhood coexist in the same spaces every day.
India - 2014
In a rural area of Cuba, women often travel long distances together, sharing the load of daily life in practical ways. They told me that moving together makes everything easier, especially when children are involved. Watching them ride as a group made it clear how often resilience here is collective, carried by women who accompany and support one another through ordinary days.
Cuba - 2012
I spoke with many women in Havana who described navigating shifting economic realities while supporting their families. She talked about the constant adjustments required to make daily life work in a city that changes as quickly as it stands still. Her resilience appeared in the way she approached each day with focus and determination, finding solutions in situations that offered very few.
Cuba - 2012
