Jerry Redfern

Biography

Jerry Redfern is a visual journalist who splits his time between Southeast Asia and the American Southwest. A Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, his work focuses on health and environmental issues in the developing world. He is the author of Eternal Harvest: The Legacy of American Bombs in Laos (ThingsAsian, 2013), cowritten with Karen Coates.

See Work

#VQRTRUESTORY

Resilience in East Timor

By Jerry Redfern

I remember this beach thirteen years ago, just after independence. East Timor had become the first new country of the twenty-first century, and Dili was its capital. Broken tiles littered the sand. A rusty sewing machine, car parts, bits of...