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...
Arresting, horrifying, sad… what else to describe the photographs and illustrations in the offices and gallery of GuChuSum. GuChuSum is the Tibetan Former Political Prisoners Association. The name means “March, September, October”, which...
Here is a quick look back on a few of my favorite images, thoughts and experiences from 2011. This is part 1 from before I went to Africa. I wasn’t doing much photography in the spring, and this post doesn’t include the many, many personal...
Slum artists – acrobats, rappers, b-boys… It’s been a long time since my last post… I’ve been busy – in Rwanda and the slums. I was going to write more, but I think these two videos say most of it. The day I first went to...
Land use change in the Transmara, from “Wildlife and People: Conflict and Conservation in Masai Mara, Kenya” by Noah Sitati Here’s a quickie to follow up on my post about elephant conflicts in Masai land. Quite a few people have written me back...
“We want to live in peace with the elephants, but they are crazy.” from a Masai volunteer for WWF who monitors elephant conflicts in Masai communities. Driving into Transmara from the Rift Valley around the Masai Mara is a bit shocking. Lush green...
