Recent Achievements:

2011 "Barefoot Haiti" Interview with Bare Essientials Magazine, Australia
2010 Published "Haiti Faces of Hope"
2010 Worked with the International Press and Afka Fotos in La Paz, Bolivia covering Presidential events
2010 Winner in Verge Magazine's Photo Annual (Winter 2010 Photojournalism Category)
2009 Created and implemented "Eyes on Life" youth empowerment program in Peru, South America
2009 First "Voices from the Field" photo blogger for Governance Village Network
2008 "30 Days in Africa" website featured in PDN Photo Annual 2008
2007 Published Photography Book & DVD "30 Days in Africa"

I have been fortunate enough in the last few years to have freedom to roam. Travelling throughout Central America, South America and Africa has opened my life to a completely different viewpoint and fresh ways of looking at the world we live in.

South America is on my agenda, especially Bolivia & Peru, shooting in Northern India and Mongolia and making it back to intoxicating Africa. But I'd be happy just to photograph my beautiful country CANADA.

90% of whayever I have done thus far with photography is voluntary.

I have worked for ACRT, H4H, CIDA, Verge Magazine, Middlebury Magazine, and CIGI.

Everyone I meet teaches me something. My favorite photographers are James Nachtwey and Nick Brandt, and my heros are Stephen Lewis, Terry Fox and Nelson Mandela.

If you are a photographer or a creative person I suggest you stop comparing yourself to others and get out there and DO IT, don't listen to anyone. Forget about the money, just follow your heart, and you will know what you are meant to do. Remember if things don't seem right, maybe it's time to swim against the current instead of going with the flow.

Terry Sebastian, October 2011