Yet another warning, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concerning the inevitability of the dire consequences of Climate Change. Persuading politicians, in bed with the hydrocarbon industries, to ...
Field Notes
More than two decades after democracy, the ‘rainbow nation’ of South Africa has come a long way in shedding the segregationist ideas and practices of the past. Still, for many, the remnants of the ...
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 ...
A group of Dani women chew palm wood heart into a pulp that they use to soak up the brine from ponds, their source of salt for thousands of years. They carry the spongy wet mass back to their village in palm leaves, ...
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 ...
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 ...