Tiff Gravel is currently on assignment in northern Uganda, documenting the work of community members and Hope for Humans, who use traditional music alongside Western medicine to aid Acholi children diagnosed with Nodding Syndrome. This terminal disease, under-researched and without a cure, stunts children's physical and mental development and is characterized my 'nodding' seizures. The disease first appeared in Uganda in the squalid and unsanitary Internally Displaced Persons Camps . The Nodding Film contextualizes the emergence of Nodding Syndrome as the Acholi people experience it, as a direct result of the decades of war and genocide they have endured.
Available on assignment for both film and photography projects throughout Africa, see more of Tiff Gravel's work here.