by blog-nelson | Oct 9, 2011 | Enemies Project
S. Sudan woman walking on road This post is from the first trip for my ENEMIES Project. Warawar – an ominous name for a town in a country that is coming out of decades of civil war and genocide. Add to that the fact that Warawar also happens to sit...
by blog-nelson | Oct 7, 2011 | Enemies Project
This post is from the first trip for my ENEMIES Project. Cows are everything in South Sudan. At least if you want to get married they are. Here, as in much of Africa, men pay a dowry to their future wife’s family in livestock, and in S. Sudan...
by blog-nelson | Oct 5, 2011 | Enemies Project, Writings
This post is from the first trip for my ENEMIES Project. I love the airport in Aweil, South Sudan. A thatched grass hut, with a giant hanging fish scale to weigh the luggage. Wouldn’t it be great if our airports could be so simple? South Sudan was...
by blog-nelson | Sep 21, 2011 | Enemies Project, Writings
One of the biggest impressions I’ve had in Kenya is the staggering amount of poverty and the massive income inequality here. All the cities I have been to are filled with people who are clearly unemployed or underemployed. Official unemployment...
by blog-nelson | Sep 10, 2011 | Enemies Project
This post is from the first trip for my ENEMIES Project. Read more about it on my website On Thursday I went to Mathare again to photograph a man who was the head of one of the youth gangs that were directly involved with the post-election violence in...