Paul Jeffrey
@globallens.bsky.social
Photojournalist. Getting old. Need more sleep. And more justice. Find me at kairosphotos.com. Go Ducks!
Happy No Kings Day!
June 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Happy No Kings Day!
Finally, an authentic Pope Leo quote. He said this today in Rome.
May 29, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Finally, an authentic Pope Leo quote. He said this today in Rome.
What's the opposite of woke?
April 30, 2025 at 3:36 AM
What's the opposite of woke?
After Trump announced today that he wants to be pope, my 3-year-old grandson announced his candidacy.
“I want to show the world that we can stay awake and continue Francis’ focus on environmental justice and mercy toward migrants,” he said. “I also think the Popemobile would be fun to drive.”
“I want to show the world that we can stay awake and continue Francis’ focus on environmental justice and mercy toward migrants,” he said. “I also think the Popemobile would be fun to drive.”
April 30, 2025 at 3:20 AM
After Trump announced today that he wants to be pope, my 3-year-old grandson announced his candidacy.
“I want to show the world that we can stay awake and continue Francis’ focus on environmental justice and mercy toward migrants,” he said. “I also think the Popemobile would be fun to drive.”
“I want to show the world that we can stay awake and continue Francis’ focus on environmental justice and mercy toward migrants,” he said. “I also think the Popemobile would be fun to drive.”
Trump's market manipulation convinced me to start selling these action figures as a way to raise money for my grandson's college fund. But the deal I arranged with a factory run by penguins in Antarctica fell through when tariffs made that contract too expensive.
April 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Trump's market manipulation convinced me to start selling these action figures as a way to raise money for my grandson's college fund. But the deal I arranged with a factory run by penguins in Antarctica fell through when tariffs made that contract too expensive.
Big crowd turned out for the "Hands Off" pro-democracy demonstration in Salem, Oregon, on April 5, 2025.
Paul Jeffrey/Life on Earth Pictures.
Paul Jeffrey/Life on Earth Pictures.
April 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Big crowd turned out for the "Hands Off" pro-democracy demonstration in Salem, Oregon, on April 5, 2025.
Paul Jeffrey/Life on Earth Pictures.
Paul Jeffrey/Life on Earth Pictures.
Israel's war on Gaza has killed more journalists than the U.S. Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (including conflicts in Cambodia and Laos), the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, combined.
watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...
watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...
April 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Israel's war on Gaza has killed more journalists than the U.S. Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (including conflicts in Cambodia and Laos), the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, combined.
watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...
watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...
Pro-democracy demonstration today in Eugene, Oregon.
March 30, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Pro-democracy demonstration today in Eugene, Oregon.
Among the casualties of Trump's USAID freeze is screening for cervical cancer, the leading cause of cancer deaths for women in Africa. Talk about a waiver for humanitarian programs is misdirection. People are dying. (Nurse Moureen Mbise screens a woman in a hospital in Shirati, Tanzania.)
February 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Among the casualties of Trump's USAID freeze is screening for cervical cancer, the leading cause of cancer deaths for women in Africa. Talk about a waiver for humanitarian programs is misdirection. People are dying. (Nurse Moureen Mbise screens a woman in a hospital in Shirati, Tanzania.)
I captured this image at a pro-democracy march on Monday, not knowing that by Wednesday it would become prescient.
February 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I captured this image at a pro-democracy march on Monday, not knowing that by Wednesday it would become prescient.
Jasmina Jahic gets help with her prosthetic arm from her 5-year-old son Eldar in Bugojno, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She lost an arm a leg to a landmine during the Bosnian War. The U.S. has long been the largest donor to the never-ending task of removing landmines and UXO. Until Trump came along.
February 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Jasmina Jahic gets help with her prosthetic arm from her 5-year-old son Eldar in Bugojno, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She lost an arm a leg to a landmine during the Bosnian War. The U.S. has long been the largest donor to the never-ending task of removing landmines and UXO. Until Trump came along.
My favorite sign at a pro-democracy demonstration today in Eugene, Oregon.
February 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
My favorite sign at a pro-democracy demonstration today in Eugene, Oregon.
Richard Chamangawa, a refugee from the DR Congo, plays a homemade adungu in the Makpandu refugee camp in South Sudan. The 12-year-old boy made his utilizing an empty can that had contained vegetable cooking oil provided to his family by USAID, the relief arm of the U.S. government. USAID is no more.
February 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Richard Chamangawa, a refugee from the DR Congo, plays a homemade adungu in the Makpandu refugee camp in South Sudan. The 12-year-old boy made his utilizing an empty can that had contained vegetable cooking oil provided to his family by USAID, the relief arm of the U.S. government. USAID is no more.
Tendai Nyamkondiwa accompanies her niece, Ngonidzashe Rondozai, on the street where they live in Harare, Zimbabwe. Rondozai, 17, has cerebral palsy and uses an appropriately designed and fitted wheelchair provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with funding from USAID--the program Trump has killed.
February 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Tendai Nyamkondiwa accompanies her niece, Ngonidzashe Rondozai, on the street where they live in Harare, Zimbabwe. Rondozai, 17, has cerebral palsy and uses an appropriately designed and fitted wheelchair provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with funding from USAID--the program Trump has killed.
Sitting on a vegetable oil can provided to his family by USAID, a boy studies in a makeshift school in a camp for displaced families in Zalingei, in the Darfur region of Sudan. In refugee camps around the world, the cans, when empty, are often repurposed as “chairs” which children take to school.
February 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Sitting on a vegetable oil can provided to his family by USAID, a boy studies in a makeshift school in a camp for displaced families in Zalingei, in the Darfur region of Sudan. In refugee camps around the world, the cans, when empty, are often repurposed as “chairs” which children take to school.
A boy displaced by war eats Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) in Riimenze, South Sudan. RUTF is a fortified peanut butter paste used to treat severe acute malnutrition. It's made at a plant in the state of Georgia and distributed by USAID, which bought $200 million of RUTF last May. No more.
February 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
A boy displaced by war eats Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) in Riimenze, South Sudan. RUTF is a fortified peanut butter paste used to treat severe acute malnutrition. It's made at a plant in the state of Georgia and distributed by USAID, which bought $200 million of RUTF last May. No more.
And when they came for the Lutherans, I did nothing . . .
February 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
And when they came for the Lutherans, I did nothing . . .
Today is Epiphany, a moment in the Christian calendar when we remember those wise guys who refused to obey in advance and resisted an insecure tyrant who sought power through lies and intimidation.
January 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Today is Epiphany, a moment in the Christian calendar when we remember those wise guys who refused to obey in advance and resisted an insecure tyrant who sought power through lies and intimidation.
When desperate refugees arrived on Lesbos in 2015, this man was often in the picture. A Greek fisherman who lived near the beach, day and night he waved boats to a safe landing and then carried the children to shore. In the coming months of deportations and hate, may we find the courage to be him.
January 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
When desperate refugees arrived on Lesbos in 2015, this man was often in the picture. A Greek fisherman who lived near the beach, day and night he waved boats to a safe landing and then carried the children to shore. In the coming months of deportations and hate, may we find the courage to be him.
When leaders of the World Methodist Council met with Pope Francis on Monday, they talked about their common commitment to help refugees. They presented him with my photo of women in South Sudan who have returned home after years of displacement, walking home after a day in their reclaimed fields.
December 20, 2024 at 2:38 PM
When leaders of the World Methodist Council met with Pope Francis on Monday, they talked about their common commitment to help refugees. They presented him with my photo of women in South Sudan who have returned home after years of displacement, walking home after a day in their reclaimed fields.
Advent = waiting. Yet it's nice when someone makes waiting more fun. Example: In this 2008 photo, Rahman Aidi Mashoof, an Iraqi refugee himself, helps refugee children laugh while they and their families wait to be registered at a UNHCR office in Douma, Syria.
December 14, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Advent = waiting. Yet it's nice when someone makes waiting more fun. Example: In this 2008 photo, Rahman Aidi Mashoof, an Iraqi refugee himself, helps refugee children laugh while they and their families wait to be registered at a UNHCR office in Douma, Syria.
It's a complicated moment for religious minorities in Syria. A worshipper lights candles in St. Paul's Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Damascus. File image by Paul Jeffrey/Life on Earth Pictures.
December 11, 2024 at 5:47 PM
It's a complicated moment for religious minorities in Syria. A worshipper lights candles in St. Paul's Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Damascus. File image by Paul Jeffrey/Life on Earth Pictures.
I photograph migration. These are migrating Vaux's swifts entering a chimney in Eugene, Oregon. We can see the trajectories of #birds in flight by extracting individual frames from high-speed video, then combine them into one image file, allowing us to "see" something our eyes alone can't visualize.
December 9, 2024 at 1:49 AM
I photograph migration. These are migrating Vaux's swifts entering a chimney in Eugene, Oregon. We can see the trajectories of #birds in flight by extracting individual frames from high-speed video, then combine them into one image file, allowing us to "see" something our eyes alone can't visualize.
I'm thinking today of the Syrian refugees whose lives I documented over the years in countries around the world. Although the future remains troubled and uncertain, my heart goes out to the millions of Syrians who fled repression and war. For the first time in years, they have some measure of hope.
December 9, 2024 at 1:39 AM
I'm thinking today of the Syrian refugees whose lives I documented over the years in countries around the world. Although the future remains troubled and uncertain, my heart goes out to the millions of Syrians who fled repression and war. For the first time in years, they have some measure of hope.
I take pictures of migration. Here's a migrating Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) jumping up a waterfall on Lake Creek, a tributary of the Siuslaw River in western Oregon.
December 7, 2024 at 12:47 AM
I take pictures of migration. Here's a migrating Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) jumping up a waterfall on Lake Creek, a tributary of the Siuslaw River in western Oregon.