Some projects find you before you know you're ready for them.
In 2025, I began working with Samira Hakim of Trans United Europe on a project that would take us to five continents, into clinics that most people have never heard of, and face to face with sixty people who chose to build something when the world gave them nothing to build with.
The Hands That Heal is a documentary photography project about community-led trans clinics in Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Johannesburg, Mexico City, San Francisco and Amsterdam. Places built by and for trans people, in cities where the regular healthcare system had failed them, often catastrophically.
I photographed the people behind these clinics: doctors, founders, caregivers, patients, activists. I sat with them. I listened. What I found was not what the world usually wants to show when it talks about trans lives. Not crisis, not suffering, not victimhood. People building things. Running clinics on shoestring budgets, training doctors, fighting bureaucracies, taking hormone levels over WhatsApp at midnight because there was no other option.
At a moment when trans rights are under attack in country after country, this work felt necessary. As activism. As testimony.
The project premiered as an outdoor exhibition in collaboration with foundation Open mind at Oosterdokskade in Amsterdam during WorldPride 2026, with seven two-by-two metre installations featuring 60 portraits and stories lining the waterfront.
The full stories of every person featured are at thehandsthatheal.org.
Some projects find you before you know you're ready for them.
In 2025, I began working with Samira Hakim of Trans United Europe on a project that would take us to five continents, into clinics that most people have never heard of, and face to face with sixty people who chose to build something when the world gave them nothing to build with.
The Hands That Heal is a documentary photography project about community-led trans clinics in Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Johannesburg, Mexico City, San Francisco and Amsterdam. Places built by and for trans people, in cities where the regular healthcare system had failed them, often catastrophically.
I photographed the people behind these clinics: doctors, founders, caregivers, patients, activists. I sat with them. I listened. What I found was not what the world usually wants to show when it talks about trans lives. Not crisis, not suffering, not victimhood. People building things. Running clinics on shoestring budgets, training doctors, fighting bureaucracies, taking hormone levels over WhatsApp at midnight because there was no other option.
At a moment when trans rights are under attack in country after country, this work felt necessary. As activism. As testimony.
The project premiered as an outdoor exhibition in collaboration with foundation Open mind at Oosterdokskade in Amsterdam during WorldPride 2026, with seven two-by-two metre installations featuring 60 portraits and stories lining the waterfront.
The full stories of every person featured are at thehandsthatheal.org.
Bring the story to your walls
Alongside the book, I’m releasing a curated selection of limited edition prints from From the Streets to the Heart.
Each print is museum-quality, signed and numbered, available in a small edition only.
By collecting a print, you not only own a piece of this powerful project you directly support the visibility of LGBTQIA+ stories and the continuation of my documentary work.
from the streets to the heart
A powerful new photobook
After years of work, and a summer-long outdoor exhibition in New York’s West Village in 2024, I knew this project could not end there.
These stories are too urgent. Too fragile. Too necessary to disappear.
From the Streets to the Heart is a book of portraits, cityscapes, and intimate testimonies capturing the resilience, vulnerability, and beauty of LGBTQIA+ people who have experienced homelessness in New York City.
This is more than a book.
It is a call to look closer, to feel deeply, and to stand with those who are too often erased, at a time when their lives, rights, and existence are increasingly under attack.
from the streets to the heart
A powerful new photobook
After years of work, and a summer-long outdoor exhibition in New York’s West Village in 2024, I knew this project could not end there.
These stories are too urgent. Too fragile. Too necessary to disappear.
From the Streets to the Heart is a book of portraits, cityscapes, and intimate testimonies capturing the resilience, vulnerability, and beauty of LGBTQIA+ people who have experienced homelessness in New York City.
This is more than a book.
It is a call to look closer, to feel deeply, and to stand with those who are too often erased, at a time when their lives, rights, and existence are increasingly under attack.
Bring the story to your walls
Alongside the book, I’m releasing a curated selection of limited edition prints from From the Streets to the Heart.
Each print is museum-quality, signed and numbered, available in a small edition only.
By collecting a print, you not only own a piece of this powerful project you directly support the visibility of LGBTQIA+ stories and the continuation of my documentary work.