From "Where the Streets Have No Name" to "Street of Dreams", my former classmates U2 (yes!) - have journeyed.

I'd like to think, I have, in my own way of course - also journeyed.

Where Bono, Edge, Adam and Larry have written and played about social division, poverty, and religious conflict, I've photographed. Not literally in the same places they sing about, but in places like Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Bosnia.

On hearing their latest track "Street of Dreams" - and the background to the lyrics - my mind went to all sorts of places. And people.

Hours later - you gotta believe it(!) - I've emerged holding 15 images which I'd like to share here.

A couple of years after the “Arab Spring” (2011), my photography changed. I moved from Morocco where I was running a mountain tourism company, to the UK where I did a MSc in Post-Conflict Development. I stopped guiding and started working in the humanitarian NGO sector, initially in Sudan, then Iraq, then Afghanistan.

Photographing mountains, pretty much exclusively, quickly became a thing of the past. Now my context was war, displaced people and misery. One in which I was initially reticent about taking photos as it just didn’t “feel right”.

Find your niche. Play to your strengths. I'm sure we've all heard those lines, or something close.

In photography terms, good principles - but do they allow you to grow creatively?

I read a Q&A post from a photography blog this morning where the questioner is anxious about trying to find their niche, perceiving it - and I'm guessing here - a place to become expert in that field. Maybe even well known. The answer from a prominent pro-photographer was to the effect that niching down (is that even a word?!) can help to find a visual style, but that if your eye is strong enough, then you can photograph anything and still have it feel "you".

First things first. This is not yet another post on the merits of JPEG over RAW - or vice versa. I think we’ve all had enough of them. Rather, I’d like to develop (no pun intended) some more thoughts following my last post on the merits of taking images straight out of camera (SOOC), or processing them afterwards in Lightroom or a similar photo-editing software platform.

One of the advantages that I see Fujifilm cameras having over say the likes of Sony, Nikon, Canon etc (Leica even!) is that they have made it possible to tweak at the camera settings level, how a JPEG image looks like when the image is taken. Colours, tones, highlights, clarity etc are all adjustable. Given Fuji’s legacy as a film manufacturer, it’s not a head-scratcher to wonder why they have made their cameras in this way.