How to meet warlords and militants, or… 20 steps to avoid if you want a simple life I gave this talk last week for Pecha Kucha, Austin. I was asked to talk about my ENEMIES Project, and as I was writing the talk I kept finding more threads from my past...
Peace must be worked for. It isn’t easy. Nobody ever said it was. I have seen this. The world won’t end tomorrow, and many of us in the world have to continue the long and painful process of finding peace and justice. It is work, but it is worthwhile. This...
While I am putting together new works from my Kashmir trip, I thought you all might like to see the project that was probably the genesis of ENEMIES. The Fallen Leaves Project was inspired by casualties coming out of Iraq. There are two sets of works here....
Ladakh… Wild taxi rides snaking over passes through snow-capped mountains to monasteries perched on the edges of cliffs. Young monks playing with matchbox cars and trading candy during prayers – later one runs up to our table during dinner, grabs the tea bag out of my...
Kashmir rushed upon us like a charging animal. In other conflict zones I have gone in quietly and with subtle diplomacy in order to find people to photograph. In Rwanda, where it is illegal to ask peoples’ ethnicity, it took me three months of emails and phone...
Again I have been holding off on posting about Kashmir, because the situation here has been a bit uncertain. After the burning down of the Dastageer Sahab shrine, tensions went up a bit as all of Kashmir was closed down for nearly five days. Because of the sensitivity...
