How do you address the Global Refugee Crisis? For us, we start one face at a time.

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The Power of Faces is a global refugee portrait project to raise awareness of what the United Nations calls "the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time." Led by documentary photographers and humanitarian advocates Daniel Farber Huang and Theresa Menders, The Power of Faces seeks to add constructively to the conversation of who or "what" a refugee is by intentionally cropping out the context of refugee camps to focus on the individuals, and not merely their label as "refugee."

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The Power of Faces show displaced people with their inherent beauty, courage, dignity, and grace. Importantly, The Power of Faces also captures the on-the-ground, oftentimes harsh reality that refugees face every day in refugee camps across Greece, Bangladesh, Mexico, and the Ukraine border.

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With The Power of Faces, Huang and Menders not only "take" photos but also give printed portraits to the individuals. While documenting the global refugee crisis, the husband-and-wife team realized that most refugees and displaced people had lost all their personal possessions when they fled their homelands, including treasured family photographs. Having a printed photo of loved ones or friends to hold in one's hands can be a great comfort in times of need, so they bring portable printers into refugee camps and provide photo-quality portraits for people to keep, which are often the only physical photographs they may own.

 

To date, the Power of Faces project has distributed thousands of photographs to displaced individuals around the world.

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