The New York Times Lens Blog featured a series of images taken in 2015 by Monique Jaques ('08) for a project on maternal health in West Africa in an article by Finbarr O'Reilly. From the May 2, 2016 article, "How Ebola Destroyed
Maternal Health Gains in Sierra Leone":
Although these deaths might have been preventable, the country is still reeling from the effects of the Ebola outbreak, which has crippled its health care system. Monique Jaques, an American photographer who traveled to Sierra Leone late last year to photograph Ebola’s aftermath for a broader project on maternal health in West Africa, documented the plight of these three women.
“Everyone seemed to cover Ebola and the whole media scrum was there and then everyone kind of just left and that was like the end of it, even though for these countries it’s not over,” said Ms. Jaques, 30, whose work focuses on women and their places within societies and explores how communities rebuild and heal after trauma. “Maybe it’s not a global problem anymore, but in this region, it still is an issue that they’re fighting all the time.”
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