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 ...
Field Notes
“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 ...
“Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from it’s own wine-press.” Khalil Gibran, The Garden of the Prophet (London, Heinemann, ...
According to many international surveys, Vancouver is one of the “best” places in the world to live. Yet, at its centre is an area (approximately 100 square blocks and 20,000 residents) that represents the poorest ...
Speaking of Northwestern Botswana,…lots of miles in my little truck, Buckie. Here, in the worst case scenario there is widespread abuse of San people, in the best case scenario these people are barely ...
I was in Nepal in the spring of 1987, when the “Freedom Bridge” connecting Nepal and Tibet was opened by the Chinese for only one week. Myself and a Finnish journalist hitched a ride on a local ...
I cherish the summer when I first camped with Paulosie Attagutalukutuk’s family of nine in a canvas tent on Baffin Island. We ate raw seal liver on the sea ice and cracked open caribou legs to slurp out the ...