The monument is easy to miss, and not only because it’s small. Tourist trails laid out by guidebooks are more likely to lead you to other places in Hanoi: around Hoan Kiem Lake, through the picturesque Old Quarter, or to the Temple of Literature. They’re less likely to lead you to John McCain. And understandably. […]
A Sample Of Times In Which Pain Or Adrenaline Went Into Taking A Photo
In providing captions for photographs, there is often background to the image that the photographer leaves out. Each of the photos in this post, when I look at them, bring to mind moments of adrenaline or pain. I hope that these images with backstory — all of which come from a 2007 trip to Southeast Asia — […]
Traveling Beyond The Sterility Of Statistics
Ba Chuc, a Vietnamese community in the Mekong Delta, sits just across the border from Cambodia. On April 18, 1978, Khmer Rouge soldiers entered the village from Cambodia and massacred 3,157 men, women, and children — almost the entire population. Today the skulls of many of the victims are on display in an outdoor memorial. Statistics, […]
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 […]