For more than 50 years Deanna Petherbridge has been an eloquent and poetic chronicler of wars, natural disasters and the political and economic forces that shaped the world we inhabit and continues to challenge head-on the political issues and even the atrocities of our time: the intensification of mass migration from war zones and the perilous journeys involved, the aggressive border controls and the squalid and inhuman refugee camps, and the threat to democracy from corrupt populist governments and a deregulated media.