John Wendle is working as a communications officer for an NGO based in Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan until Sept. 2010. He takes photos of the NGO’s development projects in the districts while working on personal projects. He is frequently out in the field. Before this assignment, he worked as a freelance photographer and was the TIME Magazine correspondent for Russia based in Moscow. In August 2008 he covered the Georgia-Russia war in South Ossetia for TIME, The New York Times, Monocle, Marie Claire and other publications. He shot breaking news and feature stories around Russia and was a contributing photographer for Atlas Press Photo Agency as well as a regular correspondent for TIME. He has extensive experience in the Caucasus and Central Asia – having worked in Kazakhstan as a Peace Corps Volunteer and then in Azerbaijan as a photographer and reporter. He has a masters from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.