After documenting history covering The White House for Time and Newsweek, and serving as former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s official photographer, I was interested in using my talent and passion as a photographer to make a positive social difference for the future. Not just in an effort to raise awareness, but to impact real change.
As a multimedia storytelling project, The Waiting List, humanizes the statistics of organ donation: every 10 minutes, another person is added to the waiting list; approximately every 18 minutes, another person dies while waiting. Compelling storytelling is the perfect tool to introduce the real people who continue to live their daily lives, while waiting for the gift of life.
Former liver transplant candidate Larry Bordeaux shared with me that he and his wife realized they couldn’t put their life on hold while on the transplant list for over 11 years. As a photographer and storyteller, I am interested in portraying organ transplant candidates as mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, husbands and wives, friends and colleagues, and not just as a sick patient.
