This past Saturday was International Women’s Day.  I posted a handful of images to facebook, but I didn’t have time to post them here.  Women have been an important part of this project – it has been easy to see that they play a vital role in the finding of peace.  Please help me celebrate by sharing these images around – email them to your friends, post them to twitter.

On other news I am speaking at TEDx Napa Valley at the end of this month.  Immediately after that I will be traveling to East Africa to do some photographic work for the African Prisons Project – a non-profit that works on reforming prisons in Africa.  The APP is run by an amazing man, Alexander MacLean, who was identified as 30 people under 30 who are changing the world.  He asked me to photograph some of his work for him last year.

Child of a Maasai family I stayed with in Kenya
Child of a Maasai family I stayed with in Kenya
Guijar child with her grandmother. Kashmir
Guijar child with her grandmother. Kashmir
Guijar kids, Kashmir
Guijar kids, Kashmir
Woman who lost her son to the military. Kashmir
Woman who lost her son to the military. Kashmir
Kashmiri woman, Srinagar
Kashmiri woman, Srinagar
Ezabir Ali - working to improve the lives of women in Kashmir. Beautiful women of Kashmir.  International Women's Day. Celebrate women of the world who have influenced you or changed your life. #womensday
Ezabir Ali – working to improve the lives of women in Kashmir. Beautiful women of Kashmir.
International Women’s Day. Celebrate women of the world who have influenced you or changed your life. #womensday
Home health nurse. The beautiful women of Kashmir. International Women's Day. Spread appreciation for the women who have influenced or changed your life. #womensday
Home health nurse. The beautiful women of Kashmir.
International Women’s Day. Spread appreciation for the women who have influenced or changed your life. #womensday
Khatoon - Home health nurse. The beautiful women of Kashmir. International Women's Day. Spread appreciation for the women who have influenced or changed your life. #womensday
Khatoon – Home health nurse. The beautiful women of Kashmir.
International Women’s Day. Spread appreciation for the women who have influenced or changed your life. #womensday
Tibetan Nun on her way to becoming the first woman to receive the Geshema - the highest degree honored in Tibetan Buddhism  International Women's Day. Spread appreciation for the women who have influenced or changed your life. #womensday
Tibetan Nun on her way to becoming the first woman to receive the Geshema – the highest degree honored in Tibetan Buddhism
International Women’s Day. Spread appreciation for the women who have influenced or changed your life. #womensday
Tibetan refugee, Dharamsala, India. International Women's Day. Celebrate women of the world today. #womensday
Tibetan refugee, Dharamsala, India.
International Women’s Day. Celebrate women of the world today. #womensday
Respected grandmother, Dinka people, South Sudan. International Women's Day. Spread appreciation for the women who have influenced or changed your life. #womensday
Respected grandmother, Dinka people, South Sudan.
International Women’s Day. Spread appreciation for the women who have influenced or changed your life. #womensday
Samburu women of Northern Kenya International Women's Day. Spread appreciation for the women who have influenced or changed your life. #womensday  ( Please support the Grevy's Zebra Trust who works with this community )
Samburu women of Northern Kenya
International Women’s Day. Spread appreciation for the women who have influenced or changed your life. #womensday
( Please support the Grevy’s Zebra Trust who works with this community )
Young girl I photographed in the Rwandan countryside. Today is International Women's Day. Spread appreciation around for the women who have influenced you or changed your life. #womensday
Young girl I photographed in the Rwandan countryside.
Today is International Women’s Day. Spread appreciation around for the women who have influenced you or changed your life. #womensday
Maasai school girls. International Women's Day. Celebrate women of the world today. #womensday
Maasai school girls.
International Women’s Day. Celebrate women of the world today. #womensday
?????? (International Women's Day) Noriko Watanabe was an artist friend of mine in Japan where I was studying traditional Japanese arts. We corresponded for years after I left. She passed away a decade ago, but she has remained an inspiration for me to this day. #womensday — with Noriko Watanabe.
?????? (International Women’s Day)
Noriko Watanabe was an artist friend of mine in Japan where I was studying traditional Japanese arts. We corresponded for years after I left. She passed away a decade ago, but she has remained an inspiration for me to this day.
#womensday — with Noriko Watanabe.