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Photos: The Aral Sea

UZBEKISTAN | Monday, 18 Oct 2010 | Photo Gallery

near Moynaq
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My Photo scholarship 2010 entry

WORLDWIDE | Sunday, 17 Oct 2010 | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

Karim remembers hundreds of fish thrashing about on his dad’s boat. Their tails flicking his suntanned face. It was always hot. He didn’t mind – he’d take a dip in the cool water any time. A normal childhood for kids in his village. Moynaq was a ... Read more >
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Tags: #2010wnphoto, Travel Photography Scholarship 2010


Before the day begins.

ETHIOPIA | Monday, 7 Apr 2008 | Views [721]

The most pleasant time of the day is before the sun rises. Just that moment, where it's dark enough to be night, but birdsong indicates daybreak. Where the glow over the east contrasts the darkness of the west. Where sound is so still, a branch cracking ... Read more >

Tags: daybreak, ethiopia, men, refugee camp, refugees, women


Repatriation

ETHIOPIA | Saturday, 8 Mar 2008 | Views [795]

The buses were not overcrowded, but they were at maximum capacity. Jerry cans, sacks of belongings and women and children packed in tight. There were not many grown men. Perhaps they were injured or lost during the years of political unrest? ... Read more >

Tags: on the road


Bamboo

ETHIOPIA | Saturday, 23 Feb 2008 | Views [970]

Sherkole is a hilly area of Ethiopia , and surrounded by bamboo in fields on all sides. Everyone utilizes this remarkable building material. The bamboo has provided shelter for the 20,000 refugees who have found ... Read more >

Tags: work


Arrival at Camp

ETHIOPIA | Saturday, 23 Feb 2008 | Views [625]

Arriving at a refugee camp after driving on dirt roads for two days was strangely relieving. Four-wheel-driving is only fun when there’s a hot shower at the end to wash the dust out of each crevice in your filthy body. We did not have this luxury, ... Read more >

Tags: work


Indian Rail

INDIA | Monday, 28 Jan 2008 | Views [747] | Comments [1]

The surprisingly alert attendant directs us to the platform. We are weary, but bright red signs are flashing ‘welcome’ in English and Hindi, so we smile, and perk up.   The huge digital clock flashes 5.53. We are three minutes late for our early morning ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road


kites

PAKISTAN | Monday, 7 Jan 2008 | Views [667]

Young boys and men throw their simple paper and bamboo kites high above their heads to catch a gust of wind. The winning gust takes their kite on a one kilometer journey into the sky.  It is a challenge getting it to catch onto that one breath of ... Read more >

Tags: People


Rawalpindi

PAKISTAN | Saturday, 29 Dec 2007 | Views [691]

The children don't stop playing, they take advantage of the empty streets. Games of cricket are set up in every other empty alley and street.  The sounds of laughter, cheers, makeshift cricket bats whacking makeshift balls echo off the closed facades.... Read more >

Tags: People


first days in lahore

PAKISTAN | Tuesday, 18 Dec 2007 | Views [715]

A wrong way walk down the ganda-nella highway (the open-sewer highway) was frustrating and confusing mostly for me - but also for the hundreds of rickshaw, car and truck drivers, and especially the police roaming the side of the busy, stinky road.  ... Read more >

Tags: Food & eating


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