Emma Pion-Berlin
Documentary portrait made during a clean-water project in Guatemala

photo + video

Water4Life Global

Guatemala · 2020, 2024

Field documentation of clean-water projects across Guatemalan villages, built to move donors and honor the families behind every well.

Water4Life Global needed storytelling that could travel, images and films that carried the reality of village life back to donors in the United States without flattening the people in them.

Working in Spanish and staying with each community, the coverage moved from installation days to family portraits to the quiet moments in between. The result is an archive the organization now uses across campaigns, grant applications, and annual reporting.

from the shoot

Family photographed at home during a nonprofit field project
01Family photographed at home during a nonprofit field project
Community gathering documented for a nonprofit campaign
02Community gathering documented for a nonprofit campaign
Detail from a nonprofit field documentation project
03Detail from a nonprofit field documentation project
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