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Northern Benin 2001 A Somba family stands in their courtyard. The Somba are known for their castle-like homes. Each home is protected by a wall. It isn’t a separate wall. The outer wall forms part of the living area itself. Inside the courtyard are some … Continue reading
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China, Yunnan Province 2005 An elderly peasant couple in the doorway of their home. We had spotted the man smoking his long clay pipe and, of course, swarmed to him with cameras ablaze. He had endured nearly a century of … Continue reading
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Fes, Morocco 2009 A small, cubby-hole sized shop in the Fes souk is filled with colorful rayon threads. Moroccan women use these threads to “embroider” their kilim rugs. The salesman calls the thread ‘silk’…if you question him, he will change that to “cactus … Continue reading
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Mardin, Turkey 2009…a tea garden in the old souk. It’s place where men can play chess or backgammon, smoke , gossip and drink tea while their women shop or do the household chores. It’s a tradition in the Islamic world … Continue reading
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Senegal 1998 Pink Lake is actually this pink color. It isn’t very deep as you can see from the women in the upper right. They are only in water up to their knees as they haul huge buckets of wet … Continue reading
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Mangalore, India 2009 An itinerant laborer from Bihar (or somewhere like Bihar) is confident that the camera loves him. And it does!! He was part of a group of his tribe, whatever tribe it was, filling bags with sand on … Continue reading
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Xining, China 2007: A young girl waits with her mother outside the Dongguan Mosque in Xining. It was prayer time at the mosque and it seemed that only men were entering. The girl and her mother waited on the sidewalk … Continue reading
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Kashgar, Xinjiang Provence, China 2003 Kashgar was a main Silk Road city and the famed Kashgar Bazaar could still impress Marco Polo with its exotic markets and people: Uigar women go about with faces obscured by a knitted head covering. Now … Continue reading
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Mardin, Turkey 2009 This was shot from the balcony of our hotel room in Mardin. We stayed in a beautiful palace from the Ottoman era. We walked to our palace room through the neighborhood streets, passing and observing the locals … Continue reading
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Mardin, Turkey 2009 The small city of Mardin sits on a hill just above the border between Eastern Turkey and Syria, not far from the Tigris River. Civilization began here. Mardin was settled about 4000 years B.C. Although Turkey has become very modern, Mardin retains … Continue reading
