“In 2008 I found myself on assignment for The National newspaper in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Over the course of two trips I spent five weeks doing a number of small specific assignments for the foreign pages of the paper. In my down time I would walk the streets exploring, looking for images of daily life. The scene in this image is a common one, a young man walking the dusty, dirty streets of Goma, selling shirts. Life in eastern DR Congo is extremely difficult, poverty is rampant, and the civil war continues to destabilize the region making the survival a constant struggle”