Currently, I live in Anakao, a small fishing village in the southwest of Madagascar. I came here in the beginning of March for a surf vacation, then the island got locked down, I decided to stay ... and it's been 108 days since.

When you fly across Madagascar, you can clearly see the bare, eroding soil and landslides everywhere: It’s a desolate view. Deforestation on the world’s fourth largest island is the most alarming in the tropical world and has reached catastrophic proportions in the past years. Approximately 95% of Madagascar’s vegetation has been destroyed over the centuries. — This is a story I pitched to and shot for Neue Zürcher Zeitung last year which was recently published.

I'm planning on publishing volume two of The Lesbian Lives Project in October this year, you can download the first 37 pages of the book here, and pre-order your copy now! The book is called "When You Come Back, I Might Be Dead. Black Lesbians in Johannesburg and a Constitution's Promise," and it's available in English and German, in a bilingual edition.

Some nice and compact portrait jobs I recently shot in Switzerland for Wir Eltern and in Madagascar for Annabelle. Read the article about volunteers here and the story of a young woman who didn't know she was pregnant until she delivered her daughter here. And to find out what masseuse Francia bought with her first salary, click here.