Tommy Trenchard

Originally from rural Dorset, Tommy began his career as a freelance writer and photographer in 2012 after graduating with a masters in African Studies and relocating to Freetown, Sierra Leone. In the ten years since, he has covered a hugely diverse range of stories around the world from the war against ISIS in Iraq to penguins in peril in South Africa. Since writing his first story for Geographical in 2018, he has reported for the magazine from eight different countries.