Ahmad Shah Massoud, Kabul, Afghanistan 2008 © Mark Pearson

CSZ (Central South Zone) Merca Somalia © Mark Pearson

Fishing huts at night in the still waters of the harbour in the Port Gaza, Palestine © Mark Pearson

Technical Support vehicles, Mogadishu, CSZ, Somalia.

Japan tsunami and nuclear crisis, 2011.

Central Gaza, op Cast Lead, 2009.

DPRK

A fishing boat sits in a housing estate 5km from the sea after a 9.0 Mw earthquake triggered a Tsunami in the town of Ofunato, Iwati Prefecture, Japan on Tuesday, 22nd March, 2011 © Mark Pearson

Port au Prince , Jan 13, 2010.

OPT, West Bank, 2009.

Observation post, Kabul, Afghanistan © Mark Pearson

Port Au Prince, Haiti, 2010.

Qalquilya, OPT 8 Aug, 2004. © Mark Pearson

Combat medics from the 82AA division help earthquake victims at the airport field hospital, Port Au Prince, Haiti, 24 January, 2010 Photographer © Mark Pearson

South Lebanon, 2006.

Kabul, Afghanistan, 2008.

ARCHIVE IN PROGRESS

An ongoing project to digitise, map, and sequence field material from conflict and humanitarian deployments, 2001–2014.

Afghanistan · Winter Crisis (2008)
Chapter pack complete · diary + stills · Jan 2026

Gaza · Blockade (2009)
Field material and operational records · editing and sequencing underway

Upper Hunza · Flood Assessment (2010)
Field material and operational records · archive under review

Curator’s Note

This archive documents field work conducted across conflict zones and humanitarian crises between 2001 and 2014. The material combines still photography, video, diaries, and operational records gathered during deployments in environments shaped by war, disaster, and political instability. The project focuses on people and place rather than policy, tracing how daily life, work, and movement persist under pressure. The timeline and chapter studies are presented as a working system: incomplete by design, subject to revision, and mapped to risk conditions at the time of capture. The archive is being digitised, sequenced, and structured to preserve context without retrospective interpretation.