20 Questions with Tim Dyk

1. Name: Tim Dyk

2. Age: twenty-two

3.Hometown: Ellensburg, Washington, USA

4. Where you are on the planet right now: Ängelholm, Sweden

5: Favourite Book: War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy. Of course the Bible provides invaluable insight for daily living.

6. Favourite Movie: The Royal Tenenbaums

7. Favourite Band: A toss-up between Sigur Ros / Radiohead / Sufjan Stevens

8. Favourite Food: Cereal of most any variety

9. What you wanted to be when you grew up: A professional baseball player. At one point I wanted to be an architect.

10. Your ‘day job’: Back home: Housepainter/dishwasher.

11. Your dream: To use art in a way that will truly open people’s eyes to all that is taking place in the world, in a way that will empower people to bring practical changes and hope.

12. What you do for fun: I like to snowboard if there are mountains and snow. If not, I read, ride bicycle, drink coffee and/or talk to people.

13. What opened your eyes to the reality of human trafficking: First of all traveling. Traveling brought me face to face with extreme poverty, which in turn opened my eyes to the state of desperation that many people in our world are living in; desperation that drives people to do things that are unbelieveable – mostly out of survival.

14: What you are doing to change it: Currently my teammate and I are traveling through Scandinavia to distribute a photography publication, Sex and Money: A Global Search for Human Worth, hopefully to begin creating further awareness on the current state of human trafficking in our world. As we share in different churches, cafes, schools, and other groups, we hope that the information and stories we share will challenge people to consider how they can be using their resources (talent, time, energy, money, ideas, minds, etc.) to bring a concrete hope to those who are in need, rather than just building up comfortable lives that are separated from the real needs of the world.

15. Specific justice issue you’d like to address most: AIDS, specifically in sub-saharan Africa.

16. Country you consider to have the greatest need: That I myself have seen, Ethiopia. I’ve heard estimates upwards of 100,000 street children in Addis Ababa, which leaves a lot of vulnerability to something like trafficking.

17. Literature/ media you recommend to help people get acquainted with the issues: Call + Response, Jesus For President, by Shane Claiborne, Sex + Money: A Global Search for Human Worth

18. Heros you look to for inspiration: Jesus, my Dad, Martin Luther King, Jr., Shane Claiborne, Sufjan Stevens, Johnny Cash, Inocencio Varine, Simple People, Those who have given their lives to do what God has told them.

19. Organizations, groups you know of effectively addressing the injustice of human trafficking:  International Justice Mission, The A21 Campaign 

20. How the modern-day slave trade will be abolished: A start would be to realize that life involves more than ourselves and our own immediate desires/needs.

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Follow tim’s travels and see some of his photographs.