Thanks to a generous contribution, our four teens in Las Minitas, Nicaragua, are finishing their high school educations ... Each of the four students will receive a $35 scholarship — enough to cover supplies and books needed to attend. The families…
Today I photographed a six-block radius of the industrial area of Red Hook, Brooklyn, for an assignment. There was not much planned, and not a lot of pedestrians, but we wanted to show the spirit of the place. So I took matters into my own hands. W…
Kirkujefell, Iceland, as night takes over, and the first stars sparkle. It was snowing and windy, and cloudy, just a few minutes before this was taken. We waited. Weather can change so quickly in Iceland. We had a good half hour of clear sky, and th…
Somewhere south of the northern-most city in Iceland, Myvarten lake takes visitors past small farms, rock formations and the famous Dimmu Borgir. The Dimmu Borgir are unusually shaped ancient lava fields that remind people of the ruins of an ancien…
Meet Ragna, who was selling potatoes at the market in Reykjavik. She solved the mystery of the individual street signs by each house... Not the family name but the land parcel. If it was divided, then there's I and ll or even lll. She asked me:…
Peeing by the side of the road iin -5 Celsius and wind factor "blow everything over and freeze your face off," is pretty much the worst idea you can have.…
Getting this shot was torture. Wind made it so cold we could not feel our fingers after three timed exposures. Karim stopped for me at this spot that he saw driving, and I went to test out what I've learned over the past 4 days, him showing me…
HUSAVIK, ICELAND — Alfred Rafnsson has spent 40 years as a captain, on small fishing boats and trawlers, giant factory ships, and with the United Nations food and agriculture organization. When he retired, he taught navigation in Namibia, Africa, b…
One of the largest free-standing glaciers is Jokulsarlon, in southern Iceland. Huge ice sheets moved through here in 1251 and carved out the landscape .... seemingly endless fields of ice and snow, with black rocks jutting up from underneath, and b…
