On September 29, 2013, I was wandering through the picturesque streets of Mostar, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in rounding one bend I saw the Crooked Bridge. It was mentioned in my guidebook: the centuries-old structure had been destroyed by a flood in 2000 and reconstructed the following year at the initiative of UNESCO. It’s […]
You Are Living Only Now, Now And Now And Now
There are no icebergs in the Gulf of Thailand, but at any given moment there is, in this and many other seas, someone thinking about the Titanic — or at least about Leonardo DiCaprio. I almost didn’t take this photograph. For most of three hours I had been lying on a bench on the ferry’s deck, […]
Thoughts On Getting A Bit Too Thin (Deir ez-Zur, Syria)
The following was written in June 2010 from a sweltering (but fondly remembered) room at the Hotel Al-Jamia Al-Arabia in Deir ez-Zur, Syria. It has happened again: after several months on the road, walking and photographing throughout the day in the less-than-moderate Middle Eastern heat, I’ve lost weight. I’ve lost so much, in fact, that […]
10 D-Day Related Places To Visit In Normandy, France
From whatever vantage point one is to view the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, the view exercises the mind and is not easily comprehended. The eyes of a pilot flying one of the 13,000 aircraft, the eyes of a naval officer commanding one of the more than 5,000 vessels, the eyes of […]
10 Photos: Town On The River Kwai (Kanchanaburi, Thailand)
“Sleep tight, dad. We won’t forget.” In Thailand’s Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, where 6,982 Allied prisoners of war are buried, one need look upon only a handful of graves – and the epitaphs left by loved ones – to recoil at the cost of war. I’m standing now over the grave of Sergeant S.T. Jephcote, who […]
All Quiet on the Panamanian Front (Bocas del Toro, Panama)
I saw this horse on two different visits one week to Wizard Beach on Isla Bastimentos, an island in Panama’s Bocas del Toro Archipelago. Drawn to the salty taste of the surf, the horse would wade into the water and then mostly stand still, letting the occasional wave slap its face. After maybe half an hour […]
Voices: Rose from Aleppo, Syria
I met Rose on June 24, 2010. It was a beautiful sunny morning in Aleppo, Syria, and I was photographing in the plaza beneath the historic citadel when a young woman entering the plaza caught my eye. She had style and confidence, and I liked the colors she was wearing. She said yes when I […]
10 Photos: Visiting Mont Saint-Michel In Normandy, France
As a child, and even as an adult, there have been places I saw in photos or film and thought, “I’ll never go there.” The reason has never been security concerns or lack of interest; it has always been the perceived financial cost. Mont Saint-Michel, the UNESCO World Heritage Site and medieval abbey perched on […]
A Person With Whom I May Be Sincere
I’ll always be grateful to a hotel receptionist named Chau, who one day in 2007 offered to get me out of Hoi An and into the homes of people in the surrounding countryside. On Chau’s day off, from the back of her motorbike, I watched the landscape whiz by as she drove us several miles […]
Remembering Photojournalist Chris Hondros
It was April 20, 2011. A Wednesday. I was sitting in the Milligan College dining hall in beautiful springtime Tennessee and, while munching salad, scrolled through headlines on my laptop. Clicking one that said “Photojournalists killed in Libya”, I read the first paragraph, which made my food lose its taste. By the time I reached […]
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