Through This World But Once

By Wayne Schoenfeld
Eye to I series: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-9798631-1-0

In brilliant color images, Through This World But Once brings you on a deeply moving photographic journey to Ethiopia with Rotaplast, a US-based volunteer medical group treating children born with facial deformities. Along for the ride is a clown—David Fiset, a skilled performer from Clowns Without Borders—delivering a different kind of healing.

Photographer Wayne Schoenfeld captures unforgettable scenes of crisis and pain, beauty and selfless heroism, humor and life-saving humanitarian aid. Through his lens, Schoenfeld views his subject with a unique aesthetic, using the photographic arts to illuminate—and to benefit—humanitarian efforts around the world.

“Schoenfeld is not sensationalizing their condition,” says art critic Peter Frank of Schoenfeld’s work, “but reporting it without edition. This is the mere truth, and it hurts to see it. But it is a truth that must be told, and a hurt we cannot refuse to share.”