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Photos by Mark Pearson

Aftershock

Starting with a poignant cover image of a Sri Lankan girl orphaned by the 2004 tsunami, it concludes with a shot of children watching ShelterBoxes being delivered in bomb-shattered southern Lebanon.

But the book is more than just a record of ShelterBox鈥檚 work. It also documents many other sights from Mark鈥檚 deployments: from women mine-clearance teams at work in Sudan to images of Israeli and Hezbollah propaganda from last year鈥檚 Lebanon conflict.

Aftershock photos by Mark Pearson

Tom Henderson, ShelterBox鈥檚 founder and general manager, said: "Passionate, determined and resourceful are all words to describe Mark Pearson. As our photographer, he鈥檚 spent nearly two years recording humanitarian work in various countries and situations.

"Imagine being behind the camera at the foot of an erupting volcano in Java, in a minefield in Sudan, delivering aid by helicopter or mule train in Kashmir or being escorted by armed militia in Somalia. That's how it was when these pictures were being taken.

He added: "Humanitarian work in the front line is not glamorous! It requires hard and unremitting effort both physically and mentally. It takes a special kind of person to carry it out and a very special skill to document it with such ability."

Aftershock photos by Mark Pearson

Mark (34) grew up in Scotland, learning photography from his father. After four years in the army, he left to study photo-journalism and work for a news agency in the North East of England.

Before joining ShelterBox, Mark also travelled and worked in Palestine and Central America. He said: "I worked as a freelance photographer in Central America shooting black and white images of daily life in the shanty towns. That was when I got interested in the humanitarian world."

His first ShelterBox deployment was to Uganda in 2004. Mark said: "Three months later the Boxing Day Tsunami happened. I called ShelterBox and Tom Henderson said to get on the next plane to Sri Lanka. The picture agency I was working for at the time refused to let me go so I took holiday time and went anyway."

Since then, as ShelterBox鈥檚 photographer Mark, who now lives in Wadebridge, has sent pictures back from deployments all around the world, most recently from the Philippines.

Copies of Aftershock are available from ShelterBox or through Waterstones in Truro.

For more information contact ShelterBox on 01326 569782.