Ed Ou

Visual Journalist, Documentary Filmmaker

A Different Kind of Force—Policing Mental Illness offers an unflinching look at the crisis in the U.S. mental health system today by exploring the complex and often fraught relationship between the mentally ill and law enforcement.

A Different Kind of Force – Policing Mental Illness

An overcrowded ship with asylum seekers leaves Libya bound for Europe – triggering a high-stakes showdown between a Doctors Without Borders vessel wanting to escort it to safety and the Libyan Coast Guard fighting to turn it back. As the Libyans issue armed threats, tension grows below deck. 

With European countries' responsibilities toward refugees once again in the spotlight, here is an inside view of the desperate hope that is the deadly race for Europe.

Unsafe Passage

After George Floyd was killed by police across the street from their home, Jamie LaBlanche and his 11-year-old son, Tyson, struggled to confront their own trauma as the mass movement against police brutality and racial inequality unfurled on their block.

The Intersection – Fatherhood at the heart of George Floyd Square

President Donald Trump told Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte that he was doing an "unbelievable job" fighting drugs in the country. Duterte promised to end drug use in the Philippines by killing drug dealers and users. A year into his term, thousands of people have died — and Duterte continues to earn historically high approval ratings. 

As the nation's police force carries out his bloody anti-drug campaign, it leaves behind a wake of grief in the families of those killed, and a portrait of the price the nation is willing to pay to bring discipline and order to the country.

The Kill List

Musangwe fighting is a nearly 200-year old fighting tradition of South Africa’s Venda tribe.

Ed Ou

Visual Journalist, Documentary Filmmaker

Unsafe Passage

The Intersection – Fatherhood at the heart of George Floyd Square

A Different Kind of Force – Policin...

The Kill List

Musangwe Fight Club