STORIES THAT NEED TO BE TOLD

Field Notes

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. ...

Tibet

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 ...

Among the Inuit

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 ...