Milenka, age 35: My parents met on an airplane. They are both from Chile. My mother was a flight attendent and my father was traveling for work. The flight had a problem and they had to stop overnight in Brazil to fix the plane. Anyway, they got married in 1976, when the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet […]
Photographer Mathew Brady’s Grave In Washington D.C.
On February 27, 1860, while on a visit to New York City, Abraham Lincoln walked into the Broadway studio of photographer Mathew Brady and posed for a picture. For many Americans, this photograph, taken the same day as Lincoln’s important Cooper Union speech, would be the visual introduction to the man who later that year […]
The Emptiness Aboard Lufthansa #586 to Cairo
Lufthansa was flying a larger than normal aircraft on the Munich to Cairo route this morning, February 1, 2011. Still, there weren’t many people — maybe 30? — sitting at the gate for flight 586 when it came time to board. The small group consisted of prominent journalists (Katie Couric and David Muir), tight-budgeted freelancers (e.g., Joel […]
Five Girls I Fell In Love With In 2017
In 2009, Maya Angelou published a book of essays called Letter to My Daughter. She never had a daughter though. What she did have — and hence the title of the book — was a strong sense of extended family, of feeling a personal connection with all around her. I relate to that. Not having […]
How Experience Gives Weight To Our Words
Some years ago I was sitting in a church and during the service a friend of mine, Adam, stood up to read a passage from the Gospel of Luke, in which John the Baptist begins his work preaching and baptizing in the Jordan Valley. There is a quote in the passage that goes like this: […]
15 Photos: 2017 In Review
In 2017, I traveled for 302 days photographing in 14 countries: the United States, Qatar, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Oman, Dubai, Iraq, Turkey, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, and Bangladesh. I may also have had a foot in Iran for a few seconds, under the protective watch of a Kurdish security escort, but I’ll […]
13 Photos: The Rohingya Refugee Crisis
Thirteen photos, without commentary, taken between October 26 and 30, 2017, at several refugee camps in Bangladesh where Rohingya refugees from Myanmar have sought shelter. This is my third and final post for the year on the crisis. The other two are What Child Is This? (Rohingya Refugee Crisis) and Double Exposures (Rohingya Refugee Crisis). […]
Double Exposures (Rohingya Refugee Crisis)
A man holds up a sign during the Inaugural Parade in Washington D.C., USA (January 2017); a Rohingya boy peeks over a fence at Jamtoli Refugee Camp, Bangladesh (October 2017) In my previous post, I wrote about listening to the Christmas song “What Child Is This?” while simultaneously working on a photo essay about Rohingya […]
What Child Is This? (Rohingya Refugee Crisis)
As I prepare this blog post about the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh, I’m sitting at a five-story Starbucks in Kadıköy, a liberal bastion in an increasingly conservative Istanbul, surrounded by hundreds of people and thousands of dollars worth of coffee and lattes. This is a city, and coffee chain, where I sometimes reflect at […]
Back Surgery at Bangkok’s Bumrungrad Hospital
On the evening of October 16, 2007, as I lay flat on my back with an anesthesia mask freshly placed against my face, I looked up at the small group of medical professionals standing around me. It included a particularly cute nurse. My mind rapidly drifting off, the last thought I remember went something like this: […]
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