Fritz Nordengren

Documentary Storyteller and Photojournalist

Details: a medical chart in Guatemala

A medical student rests in the back seat of a taxi in Ecuador

The small slips of paper passed between medical team members in a village in rural, Guatemala.


A single frame: Why and how I captured this shot

An easy way to communicate the patient’s medical complaints. This paper was a small family being seen together, condensed.

To me, it’s a photograph of metaphors, and says so many things on its own or as part of the bigger story of need and help.

35 mm film