In May of 2005, CHICAGO TRIBUNE reporter Cam Simpson and photographer José Moré set off for Nepal and Jordan to piece together the story of how 12 Nepalese men were killed en route to their new jobs in Iraq. According to producer Jon Shenk, it was Moré’s photos that allowed EXPOSÉ to recapture the pair’s journey for viewers in “Blame Somebody Else,” even though a crew could not be sent overseas. So moving and vivid were the Moré still photos used in the program that the producer’s sister-in-law assumed Shenk had traveled to Nepal and shot footage there. Shenk gives Moré full credit:

. . .any sense the viewer feels of being in the room with Bishnu Hari’s mother as she describes the loss of her son or the outrage of seeing mattresses stacked outside the illegal crash pad of human traffickers in Amman, Jordan is there because of José’s great eye and passion to tell this story.

Here, José Moré shares more of his photographs from that trip.

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