There used to be a train that ran through El Sauce, Nicaragua. During the civil war, it stopped running and after a time people took up the track to sell for money. The train was sold to Japan. Now, the former track is a dirt trail that runs from t…
Electric has been out all day in El Sauce. Dinner by candlelight.…
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…
BRIN/DJIBONKER, SENEGAL [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Brin,+Senegal/@12.5339498,-16.353069,11z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0xee78e2f260e846f:0x306f2eabc1634bfd] — Only the flames from the fire light the cooking shelter, where Berthe is patting the gauze…
During this amazing journey, I had the absolute honor to witness a Bukusu circumcision ceremony. It's more of an all-day and all-night affair, a rite of passage for each boy to transform into a Bukusu man. They choose when they are ready, and th…
There are not enough ways to count the awesomeness of this moment and photo. Me, Aime (too tall in the back to see), and the guys in his traditional dance group, after they tore it up at our base on my final day in Brin, Senegal, taking photos for…
In many ways, in the small villages in this area of the Casamance, Senegal, traditional culture is changing and part of the changing times. On my final day with the Leverhulme Crossroads language team, Aime (in on left) came over with his traditiona…
Uzupis. Started by artists and rebels right after the Iron Curtain came down. It has thrived in the Lithuanian capitol since 1990. Even the little back pathways are filled with art. Artists get a break on studio space in the incubator ... and it…
When the Soviet Union lowered the Iron Curtain and Lithuania gained its independence in 1990, it wasn't long before artists and rebels took up a residence in an abandoned house by the River Vilnia. They congregated in the courtyard outside the…
