Shining Light in Darkness

My work is a response to God's call to shine His light in darkness through photojournalism—a calling I first sensed in high school.
 

In August of 2012, I began pursuing a formal degree in photojournalism at Biola University. In 2015, a sustainable community development class, taught by a missionary who had lived in a Manila slum, awakened my soul with a stirring to document God's light illuminating the darkness of poverty.

In May of 2016, I earned my photojournalism degree and embarked on a summer internship in Cambodia with Samaritan’s Purse. There, in rural villages surrounded by vibrant green rice fields, I documented stories of villagers experiencing the life-changing power of physical and spiritual freedom from poverty, in Jesus’ name. As I captured this beautiful, foreign land through the lens of my camera, a sweet whisper echoed in my soul: "This is what I was made to do." 

After my internship, I returned to Biola to pursue my master’s in intercultural studies. Classes in missiology, anthropology, and community development filled me with great anticipation for how God might connect my skills as a photojournalist with a deeper missional and intercultural understanding of the contexts I hoped to someday document. I completed my degree in 2017.

Since 2018, I have worked with Fuller Seminary and The Fuller Foundation, weaving together photography, videography, and graphic design to tell stories of men and women being prepared for their own kingdom callings. 

In this broken world, darkness wages war against all that is good, and at times, it can seem too much to bear. But through my work, I want to tell a story of ultimate hope—that God's light shines in the darkness, and the darkness cannot, and will not, overcome it.​