Jeff Deutsch is the manager of Oxfam America’s design and production team. Part of his job is to pay close attention to the images Oxfam uses to portray its work, often relying on pictures shot by others. On a recent field visit to West Africa, he photographed some of that work himself.

Trained as a graphic designer, Deutsch talks about what he captured with his camera. In the first of three audio and photo blogs, he visits Senegal, where water still covered large parts of the city of Pikine six months after a flood hit:

Watch part II.