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Archive for September, 2011
Daddy’s picture
There's nothing particularly dramatic about this image, but it was an emotional moment for me as a photographer. I was in Beirut in 2008, as part of an assignment in Lebanon and Syria documenting the lives of Iraqi refugees. I was with a translator from the Caritas Lebanon Migrant Center, visiting some refugee families in […]
Haiti: Hatuey’s legacy
They were easy to spot from a distance because they all had on the same red shirts. As they neared my row, I cringed a bit, hoping they would continue on towards the back of the plane that was going to carry us to Miami. But then two women stopped and asked to get past […]
Dying of thirst
No More Deaths is a humanitarian group that organizes volunteers to place water in the desert along the U.S.-Mexico border, water that frequently keeps migrants traversing the desert from dying. They place gallon jugs of water along migrant paths, carefully monitoring what gets used and what doesn't so they can shift water to where it's […]
Himalayan helicopter
In delivering emergency aid, helicopters can be useful, such as getting tents to the remote village of Gantar, high in the Himalayas of northern Pakistan. In the wake of the October 2005 earthquake, when homes in this village had collapsed, and with winter quickly closing in, getting shelter material on the ground was urgent. Yet […]
Sunshine woes
Seems like it would be simple. If farmers are working in a field, you just point the ol’ camera and “click.” Then on to the next task. But it seldom works out that way. Why? Farmers tend to put things in the ground, and thus spend a lot of time looking at the ground. The […]
Handy translator
I've been on assignment in Haiti, and haven't posted for two weeks. I hope you survived in the absence of the PotW. . . Haiti is one of those places where I need a translator most of the time, as my crappy French isn't good enough to understand most Kreyol. Translators are critical players in […]