PHOTOGRAPHY A collection of Elsa Buchanan’s photographic work, spanning commissioned photojournalism, NGO storytelling, and personal documentary projects. Her photography explores themes of conflict, displacement, recovery, and everyday resilience across the Middle East and Africa.
Featuring selected photo essays and visual stories from ongoing assignments, published photo essays, and past travels.
Between ruin and routine: Cities in waiting Yemen, July and November 2023, February 2024
The wounded earth: How landmines devastate Yemen’s farmland Yemen, November 2023
Local heroes: The hands that make Al Remah’s land safe again Yemen, November 2023
Duty called: The family who traded everyday life for the dangerous work of demining Yemen, November 2023
Families struggle to survive as land and naval mines devastate Yemen’s West Coast fishing communities Yemen, November 2023
Landmine Awareness in Yemen: Changing gender dynamics Yemen, November 2023
The hospital giving hope to war amputees Yemen, July 2023
School classrooms used to store landmines and explosive devices during the war Yemen, July 2023
Surviving and thriving after a landmine accident Yemen, July 2023 and November 2023
Community-level HIV intervention: Engaging vulnerable herd boys Lesotho, February 2020
Finding their worth: Girls’ empowerment through WORTH groups Lesotho, October 2019
Let Youth Lead: Advocating for vulnerable young people and their families Lesotho, October 2019
Nowhere to go: Calais' refugee children urge Britain and France not to forget them France, October 2016
Fleeing war: a tailor pursues his dream in Kakuma Refugee camp Kenya, June 2016
Stranded South Sudanese asylum seekers wait days to receive protection at Kenyan border South Sudan, June 2016
Holding on: Mariam’s life in Kakuma Kenya, June 2016
Hostility and Fear: LGBTI Ugandan refugees in Kakuma camp Kenya, June 2016
Somali girls fleeing refugee camp's targeted persecution Nairobi, Kenya 2016
Day of the African child Kakuma, Kenya 2016
Keeping girls in school: Access to safe water Kakamega County, Kenya, November 2015
Life behind the barricades: Living in Bujumbura’s killing streets Burundi, July 2015
Burundi's invisible victims: Internally displaced civilians are going hungry Burundi, May 2016
WARNING GRAPHIC Torture victim 'forced to hang 5-litre jerry can from his testicles' Burundi, July 2015
Mothers fear children will go hungry as shattered economy reels from months of violence Burundi, July 2015
London Gay Pride UK, May 2015
Oxfordshire vs. Berkshire, County Rugby, UK, May 2015
Burundians call on UK to withdraw support to President Nkurunziza, UK May 2015
Anonymous gathers UK, November 2014
Occupy Parliament Square UK, October 2014
Celebrating a man's passage into death Malawi, September 2014
Death by birth: Meet the woman saving lives in Chisala Malawi, September 2014
Digging sand: a father and son afternoon of bonding in Chisala Malawi, September 2014
Thousands demand action for climate change in Central London UK, September 2014
Resisting the men-only convention in Morris dancing, in Bosham UK, July 2014
Thousands join Charlie Hebdo 'pencil' tribute in London's Trafalgar Square UK, January 2014
English Defense League march descends on multiethnic East London UK, September 2013
Flying the colours of the Caribbean, Notting Hill Festival UK, August 2012
Beirut's forgotten Palestinian refugees in Sabra and Shatila camps Lebanon, July 2012
'Sfiha' making in the historical frontline of Tripoli Lebanon, July 2012
Taste Lebanon, a culinary journey across Lebanon June 2012
Occupy LSX Camp Site outside London St. Paul's cathedral, UK, December 2011
Fishermen at sea, sustaining local livelihoods Southern Zanzibar, September 2011
Family, education and cattle herding Kisongo community, Northern Tanzania, October 2011
A city ablaze: London Riots, Hackney Central, UK, August 2011
Fishers' market, Funchal Autonomous Region of Madeira, April 2011
Anti-Government Cuts demonstration in London, UK, March 2011
When The Tapajós meets the Amazon Pará, Brazil, January 2011
Ver-o-peso docks, Guajará Bay riverside Belém, Pará, Brazil, January 2011
Comunidade da Tracua displaced by big multinationals, Município de Belterra Pará, Brazil, January 2011
Living at the Sri Jinananda Children's Home, Colombo orphanage run by monks, Sri Lanka, August 2010