This morning I was startled awake by a phone call at 4:25 a.m. It was Remy, the fisherman in Bandial, Senegal, who welcomed us into his village ... He wanted to say hello. He speaks about four words of English and I speak about 3 of French, so not r…
I am talking with students at Colchester Middle School with media specialist Lisa Buckton about my travels and photographing remote communities with linguists in Africa and Australia. I'm using the fish Remy carved me in Bandial last week and t…
I'm just going to leave this here, with its awesomeness of kid-dom, worldwide. I started out taking a photo of 5 kids bathing in the mangroves. In an instant, there were 40 or so, who waded out with us to the little rock island with the lone ba…
Hostel internet SUCKS. I've been trying to send a high-res photo file to a university for THREE DAYS. I just walked five blocks in the pouring rain to the tourism center, where there was free, good wifi in the afternoon outside at the bus stati…
Remembering Kenya: "On the job." Taking a selfie with the kiddos at a Maasai village outside the Selenkay Conservancy, Kenya. I was taking videos and we were going nuts looking at images in the back of the Nikon. I look forward to sharin…
This is the last photo I took with my professional Nikon I saved for. It should be better, right? I'm in Christchurch, New Zealand. I started my day a bit unmotivated after the chaos at the airport and the messed up return airfare, but it got…
My final day in the final Kaalamaya speaker's truck, Brian took me to where he grew up. Then he told me he has rapid-onset Alzheimer's and in a few months? All of this will be lost. He is the final speaker, the only one of his Aboriginal mob…
Life from the top of the 4-wheel-drive and "swag" tents out in the bush, helping the Ngalia Aboriginal mob document a sacred part of their living history. We are on the road hours east of Leinster, western Australia, in the out out back,…
At 77, Brian Champion has lived in two worlds. Until he was 7 or 8, he lived with his parents — Kaprun people on Kaprun land. Their ancestors lived in their country (land) for ages. Not too long ago, DNA from a single lock of hair confirmed that…
