Tanya Martineau
Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Tanya Martineau is an award winning photographer, non-profit co-founder, former Director of US Operations for international film company, Prospect Arts and now freelancer. She is a compassionate humanitarian, sought after director and producer that is using her gifts to create powerful films of change. She co-founded Unseen, a non-profit that is dedicated to serve anti trafficking organizations around the globe. In 2018, she traveled 150+ days to 9 countries and 22 cities directing humanitarian films in the depths of the Congo to women trafficked in MS13 gangs in El Salvador to refugee camps in Bangladesh. She has a passion to highlight non-profits who are walking alongside those bringing truth and grace in some of the darkest places of the world.
2016 - USAID International Photo Award
Swampland to Farmland
Tanya Martineau
USAID drained 667 acres of swamp land in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 13,000 families are now able to use this nutrient filled soil to grow crops. This woman stands proud knowing she now has the resources to provide for her family.
Photographed for Food for the Hungry.
A New Home
Tanya Martineau
Starting July 2016, 2,000 people fled South Sudan into Northern Uganda every day for 11 months. 82% of the 1.3 million refugees are women and children seeking a life free from violence and conflict. I was met in the settlement with unexpected calmness and order.
Photographed for Food for the Hungry.
Gravesite Playground
Tanya Martineau
A Filipino boy eagerly climbs the tombstones as he runs from his friends who are weaving thru the maze of the gravesite. A community of 3,000 Filipinos call this cemetery their home. They live in and around the tombstones using the concrete structures as support when natural disasters hit along the Pacific coast.
Photographed for Food for the Hungry.