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Field Note

This Hermit Monk

This Hermit Monk lives in total silence and solitude. He sleeps on a bed of olive branches scattered over the floor of a dilapidated stone cottage without doors or windows. He neither works nor produces his own ...

ICON PAINTER

Many monks on Mount Athos  support themselves by carrying on the long Byzantine tradition of icon painting, with gold leaf. Mount Athos  is the bastion of Eastern Christianity, the repository and protector ...

Zaida

It is estimated that somewhere in the world 70 people are killed or injured by landmines every day. Most of them are people who have no choice but to go where the landmines are; they must tend their animals, work ...

UXO’s in Laos

The smell of urine and infection pervades the Phonsavanh Hospital in Xieng Khouang Province, Laos.  In the “maternity ward” a graying young women lies bundled in worn blankets, motionless, staring ...

Kirov Ballet

These pictures, of Kirov ballet players preparing to perform both the male and female parts of Swan Lake, were made over a two-hour period in the dressing room of the Russian National Theatre in Moscow. I ended up ...

The Hunting Cabin

After a long night of fixing, re-fixing, and fixing a breakdown on Andy’s snowmobile we arrived at this tiny cabin in the cold winter dark. An hour later we pull up to tiny outpost cabin, all snow-drifted in. ...