2026 - Voices for Transparency
"Voices for Transparency" is a photography exhibition curated by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ)that explores how financial secrecy in British offshore jurisdictions — including the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Isle of Man, and Guernsey — has enabled corruption, wrongdoing, and human rights abuses around the world.
The exhibition combines portrait photography with first-person testimonies to tell the human stories of people impacted by opaque financial structures: anonymous corporations, hidden ownership, and offshore companies. It also celebrates the role of investigative journalism in exposing these abuses, often done by reporters working under legal threats and without access to public registries of company ownership.
The project was timed to coincide with the Illicit Finance Summit, a major international meeting hosted by the UK government in June 2026, and was also presented as a physical exhibition in London.
My role in the project was to bring this whole exhibition to the web for the ones who couldn't attend it in person. I was tasked to create an interactive gallery to feature a selection of photos, that would be fully responsive in all sizes and aspect rations, and use scrollytelling and animations to go through all the individual cases.
The project was initially designed in Figma, then coded to be fully self-contained using Javascript and SCSS. Mobile version presented a challenge, since the clients wanted the people's portraits to be visible at all times, even when text is scrolled, so I manipulated the way the layers are rendered in CSS in a way where the whole interactive was still fully viewable by scrolling only on mobile, but the text would gradually disappear as it transitioned from the lower to the upper half of the screen.
The Exhibition was a success and received a wide media coverage. The web version can be viewed here:
