Fifteen years ago today, I sat on the Great Wall of China and pondered the journey I was setting out upon — 61 weeks by land across Asia, from China to Turkey. To commemorate the anniversary, I post the following excerpt from my unpublished manuscript about the journey: Sitting alone on the Great Wall […]
My Parents Met On An Airplane
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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