This gallery contains 1 photo.
Ouarzazate, Morocco 2009 A kasbah is a something like a fortified apartment house. It is a rabbit warren of rooms and apartments connected by dark hallways. The only light is from shafts of harsh sun where the structure is open to the … Continue reading
This gallery contains 1 photo.
Bamako, Mali 2002 Mali was once a French Colony. Leafy trees line the boulevards shading the old yellow and white colonial buildings . Our hotel in Bamako was on a street like that. The grounds were lush with palm trees and flowering shrubs. … Continue reading
This gallery contains 1 photo.
Delhi, India 2009 Lately, I’ve been deleting some of my photos that are truly awful. I have plenty of them and it takes time to delete them and it is boring. But yesterday, I finally paid attention to this shopkeeper … Continue reading
This gallery contains 1 photo.
Longji China 2005 These beautiful swirled terraces are more than 400 years old and are still being worked in the same manner as the first farmers who settled here. In many places in China, the rice terraces have caused the … Continue reading
This gallery contains 1 photo.
Mali 2002: Somewhere on the Niger River between Timbuctoo and Mopti We sailed past this pinasse because ours had a motor. We sat on wooden benches, three of us on a bench under a canvas canopy that protected us from the … Continue reading
This gallery contains 1 photo.
Mopti, Mali 2001 This Fulani woman was ‘famous’ for her large earrings and every photographer who went to Mali photographed her sooner or later. We went to her home where she was going about her chores. She quickly changed her … Continue reading
This gallery contains 1 photo.
Market in Uzbekistan 2012 Torie and I always looked for beauty and symmetry when we were scouring the markets for shots. It’s rare. The whole point of most of the markets we visited was the buying and selling of meat … Continue reading
This gallery contains 1 photo.
Kyrgyzstan 2012 You might call him an ‘eagle whisperer’. He is looked up to by younger Kyrgyz men who want to learn the skill of hunting with an eagle. We could see that he and his bird were a team. He talked … Continue reading
This gallery contains 1 photo.
Tashkent, Uzbekistan 2012 : Market Scene Torie and I never refused the chance to photograph a market. They can be intimidating, though. Does the person you want to photograph want to be photographed? Should you ask and take the chance that the magic will … Continue reading
This gallery contains 1 photo.
Khiva, Uzbekistan 2012 There are many old caravanserais and madrassas in Uzbekistan. It was the center of commerce and learning, or we might say technology, in the 14th century. Many of these old structures have been restored by the government … Continue reading
