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Caroline E. Brown is an associate professor at the Hahn School of Nursing at the University of San Diego, California, and a photographer. In 2000 Brown went to the Philippines to work on a photo documentary for Interplast, a nonprofit organization that provides free reconstructive surgery to children worldwide.
Brown says, "This image was taken in a makeshift recovery area a few blocks from the local hospital in San Carlos. Nurses from the hospital were assigned to provide postoperative monitoring while families stayed alongside their children and gave supportive care. This father was holding his daughter, who had had surgery to repair a cleft lip. He gazed tenderly at her face and seemed to be taking in her new appearance."