STORIES THAT NEED TO BE TOLD

Field Notes

West Papua

For 99% of mankind’s existence, we have been hunters and gatherers.  Our current affluence is but a brief moment in human history.  Yet, we impose our will and influence on people whose way of life is just ...

Thoughts on Portraits

I’m always amazed how everyone has eyes, ears, a nose, a mouth, and yet we are all unique. Portraits are facial landscapes and sometimes just a few leaves tell more of the story than the whole tree. Sometimes I am ...

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 ...