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A mother holds her baby beside her daughter outside their house, washing drying in the wind

Films + photography2024 –

Barbara May Foundation

An ongoing collaboration with Barbara May Foundation, a charity organisation, providing professional maternal healthcare free of charge to women from poorer communities in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Over several years, I have developed communications and fundraising content for the foundation in the form of video and photographic materials. My approach reflects the organisation’s commitment to treating the women it serves with dignity, respect and cultural sensitivity.

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Client: Barbara May Foundation
Film + Photography: Justin McLean

Paulina’s Story

Arusha · Tanzania · 2024

Paulina – fundraising film03:16

A mother holds her laughing baby beside her son (black and white)

A mother holds her baby beside her daughter outside their house, washing drying in the wind

A dirt road runs through green farmland under heavy cloud

Stills

Arusha & Dodoma · Tanzania · 2024

A woman in a pink dress stands among tall maize

A woman in a blue dress sits in her home beside a patterned curtain

An older couple laugh together in their maize field

Portrait of a young woman smiling (black and white)

The same young woman laughing, hand to her face (black and white)

The same young woman laughing, eyes bright (black and white)

A clinician sits on a bed in a simple rural ward

Light falls through a doorway into a dim clinic room

Ester’s Story

Kivulini Maternity Centre · Arusha, Tanzania · 2025

Ester – fundraising film02:42

Ester stands in the hospital garden, arms folded, smiling (35mm film)

A mother smiles up from the operating table (35mm film)

A nurse in a green cap rests her hand on a patient’s head in theatre

Stills

Kivulini Maternity Centre · Arusha, Tanzania · 2025

Two surgeons in masks and caps lean in under the operating lamp

Surgeons at work under the theatre lights (35mm film)

Surgical instruments laid out on green cloth

A woman wrapped in a sheet sits on the edge of a ward bed, facing the wall (35mm film)

A doctor runs an ultrasound for an expectant mother

Three women in hospital gowns stand laughing in a ward doorway

A patient leans on a table in the late afternoon light

A gloved hand steadies a newborn on green cloth moments after birth

A tiny baby in a knitted hat sleeps in the neonatal unit

A baby in a striped beanie sleeps against a Maternity Africa blanket

A mother kisses her newborn, swaddled in a white blanket (black and white)

A grandmother sits outside the hospital with a smiling little girl on her lap

A pregnant woman in a purple headscarf stands in the garden, hand on her belly

The hospital gardens, with figures walking a path between the wards

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