Giving Compass' Take:

• Global Citizen profiles Muhammed Muheisen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who has done most of his work in conflict zones, capturing the lives of vulnerable people.

• Muheisen's powerful images can have a profound effect, as he shows the human side to some of the biggest humanitarian crises in the world. Aid work should be informed by such empathy and compassion.

• Here's how refugees tell their stories through photos of their possessions.

Muhammed Muheisen was born and raised in Jerusalem against a background of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

But spending his childhood in a conflict zone has shaped his view of the world and, as a photographer, has had a profound influence on his work.

“I remember there was always space for fun as a child, so whenever I go to other conflict zones, that’s what I see,” he told Global Citizen over the phone from his temporary base in Greece.

“It’s what I look for — I find my camera always pointed at that kind of photography because it exists,” he says. “There is two sides to the story. You can have a funeral on the right and you can have a child, a baby just been born, on your left.”

The UN’s Global Goals can’t be achieved without taking into account the rights and needs of refugees, internally displaced people, and stateless people. The work of people like Muheisen is important because, by documenting the crisis, they make it so much harder for world leaders to turn their backs.

Read the full article about the photographer who documents refugees by Imogen Calderwood at Global Citizen.