About

After teaching at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, my full-time goal for the previous 17 years has been to help those in need or to assist the organizations that are helping them. I can contribute with photographs that create a sense of purpose and cohesiveness, raise credibility, and share accomplishments and successes with donors. My photos focus on the feelings of people who are in need, create emotional empathy, and make it harder not to help them.
Since 2004, we helped those less fortunate by moving to a small village in the Lao PDR, building a school building, selecting and supporting scholarship students, assisting patients to access medical care locally, nationally, internationally, and sometimes attending funeral ceremonies.

Bryan and his wife Leila Srour, a pediatrician have been living in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Laos) from 2002 to 2013. Now they are always on the road with no home base.