Conversation with Robin Hammond

New Zealand-born Robin Hammond is an award-winning visual storyteller with an international career focusing on social justice. He talks with Hans Weston about his quest to create change with his images. His projects include his work on discrimination against the LGBTQI+ community around the world, Where Love Is Illegal, and In My World a series about mental health conditions and neurological disorders. He is the founder of Witness Change, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing human rights through story telling. In his latest campaign 1,000 Dreams Witness Change has given cameras to refugees and helped them with a workshop so they can become their own storytellers.


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