Reflections on the Road

A traveling photographer's blog about the world around us, and within us.

Double Exposures (Rohingya Refugee Crisis)

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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)

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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 […]

Thoughts On “Coming Full Circle” From The Edge Of Indonesia

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There are places on a map — and which have parallels within oneself — that feel like a closed door, or a hard line. Lines before which you stop, perhaps for days on end, not knowing entirely what to do. You feel foreign, even to yourself. You look back, retracing how you got to this point. […]