photo credit: Eric Parsons     was born and grew up in South Africa and moved to the United States as a 16-year-old. I first fell in love with photography as a teenager in South Africa when I began shooting black and white film and printing my own work. Since then I've completed a B. A. at Brandeis University, an M.F.A. in writing at Cornell University, a Masters in Photojournalism at Syracuse University's Newhouse School and have been working as a freelance photographer ever since. I currently freelance for a variety of newspapers, magazines and organizations. My work has appeared in the Boston Globe, New York Times, Newsweek, The Chicago Tribune, USA Today, the London Times, Washington Post, Cape Business Magazine and Boston Magazine to name a few. I love working on photo stories and recently had the opportunity to work on a long-term multi-media project in India about India's Devadasi tradition. My goal is to create images that move and inform, that are beautiful and capture in a unique way this extraordinary and complex world we live in.