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 […]
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 […]
7 Photos: School-aged Girls In Four Countries
Among the many topics I photograph is school kids, and my portfolio leans more toward girls than boys. Why? At least part of the answer, I think, is that girls tend to be gentler, kinder, and more inspiring. Also, I can’t recall ever being attacked or shot at by a school girl, or given the middle finger. […]