Emmaline Portraits

  • For The Global Alliance for Arts and Health.

  • For a private client, Milan.

  • For The Texas Children's Hospital. Mar del Plata, Argentina.

  • For The Texas Children's Hospital. Mar del Plata, Argentina.


  • Hlaing Tharyar. Zar Zar Theint, 23, led a two-month strike against her Korean employer at Master Sport Shoe factory. 717 female workers sat outside the factory gates, demanding their unpaid wages.

  • Sarah Martinez, employment agent for Workforce Solutions in Presidio, Texas. Many residents of Presidio, where the Trans-Pecos Pipeline will cross into Mexico, are in favor of the project. They hope that construction will bring employment to the area. "We've got around 150 men on the books waiting for work. We have the lowest employment rate in the region, somewhere around 8.27%," says Martinez.


  • May Myat Noe, 15, at the MFDG Fashion Show at the Myanmar Convention Centre, Yangon. May Myat Noe was recently stripped of the title of Miss Asia Pacific after allegations that she lied about her age. She has yet to return the $100,000 tiara.

  • May Myat Noe, 15, at the MFDG Fashion Show at the Myanmar Convention Centre, Yangon. May Myat Noe was recently stripped of the title of Miss Asia Pacific after allegations that she lied about her age. She has yet to return the $100,000 tiara.






  • Sittwe. Volunteers prepared food for thousands of refugees who lost homes to arson.

  • Hlaing Thayar. Kyaw Thura on his fifth day at his new welding job. He'd been out of military prison just over one week, after a two year sentence for desertion.

  • Mandalay. Ashin Wirathu, the figurehead of the fascist Buddhist 969 movement. In 2011 Wirathu was released from prison, after serving seven years for inciting violence against Muslims.

  • Dine Su. At fifteen years old Arkar Min was lured away from his village by a man offering him driving lessons, his food was drugged and he awoke in an army training camp.

  • Kristina Anderson, one of most critically injured Virginia Tech survivors, lectures on her experience at private tuition centers, schools, and workplaces. CREDIT: Spike Johnson.

  • Donald Lee, K-9 handler with San Marcos Police wears his formal uniform at the opening ceremony of an active shooter response training event. CREDIT: Spike Johnson.

  • Terry Bishop and his wolf in Presidio. Bishop campaigns against the Trans-Pecos Pipeline. He is an active environmentalist, instrumental in creating the BJ Bishop Wetland on the Texas, Mexico border. The conservation effort supports wildlife habitats that have been impacted by water shortages due to industry and agriculture.

  • David Keller of the Big Bend Consevation Alliance walks on Hancock Hill, above Sul Ros University, Alpine, where he works as an archeologist. Keller has been the driving force behind opposition to the Trans-Pecos Pipeline since 2013 rumors of the project emerged. “The pipeline has made me so angry, sometimes I feel quite powerless against it,” says Keller, “it involves both countries, and governments, and huge corporations.”

  • Dallas, Texas, 2010. Harold Rosenbaum, a member of the ProActive North Texas Traing Group, shows off his collection of assault rifles against the backdrop of his neatly arranged toy soldiers "God I miss that life" he says, as he glances at the display.

  • Dallas, Texas, 2011. Middle-aged men practice commando rolls and magazine reloading with women in their mid-20s – women armed not just with Glock pistols but also with AR-15 rifles. Members say that since 9/11, there has been increased interest in training.

  • Dallas, Texas, 2010. Ralph Severe, Texas Survivalist instructor, in the front room of his home.