Before dawn I step back in time, onto the cobblestone streets of Karyes, and the capital of the oldest monastic republic in the world. My footsteps echo off the stone walls of the narrow street. I am not alone. I ...
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 ...
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 ...
As a documentary photographer I try to engage myself with what is real in the world. To tell stories that need to be told. I take on projects that either really turn me on or really piss me off. In 1985 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“If you take pictures of anyone else but deminers, or anyplace else but minefields, I will shoot this man,” the local Taliban leader says, with cold black deadly serious eyes, while pointing to my ...
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 ...
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. ...
Brilliant bursts of bioluminescence plunge past the wake of our boat. Schools of fleeing spawning salmon agitate the salty river estuary, and the chemical properties of unicellular photosynthetic algae called ...