EP016 - Artist – Luke Duggleby on Preparation, Passion and Fighting for What's Right.

N.B. A few key names have been blanked out of this episode in order to publish it.

Luke Duggleby is an award-winning documentary photographer from England who now resides in Thailand as he continues his quest to champion human rights defenders, some of whom have been assassinated during their struggle.

Luke’s life work has become the preservation of their impact, legacy and memory – for both the progress of remote communities and their respective families.

Luke is in development with an international N.G.O., Protection International, to provide Thailand (and eventually further afield regionally and even perhaps globally) with an online platform for human rights defenders, community leaders and documentary storytellers to expose human and environmental rights abusers and bring to justice the corruption that is plaguing the progression of the free world.

In this episode, Luke and I go deep into specific quests he has been documenting and the darkness that suffocates the light in the eyes of local human rights defenders and communities. We also discuss his ideas for a potential ‘way forward' and he offers some incredible insights for creativity and emerging photographers.

It is an episode not to be missed.

I believe we are all awakening to the global "monsters under the bed" - those who have been suffocating and depleting the planet and its people for decades. It is champions like Luke that give me hope for the future – one in which human and environmental rights are upheld for all and one that is not corrupted by the need for excess and the greed of globalisation.

Find Luke here:

Instagram - @lukedugglebyphoto

Web - lukeduggleby.com | thesidiproject.com