Global Lens Reflections on life, the universe, and everything
Archive for August, 2012
Mother’s love
It’s back to school time for many children in North America, so this week I’m thinking about people like Mariolette Souffrant, a woman living in a tent city in the Mais Gate neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Here she is one morning helping her son Lucien get dressed for school. The four-year old is a student […]
Laughing woman
It was one of those interminable hot days in the tropics. I’d eaten a big lunch and was sleepy, yet my local hosts were enthusiastic about showing me another six projects before sunset. I bounced around in the Land Cruiser as they drove me to a couple of projects where people were growing and processing […]
Elbow angles
Photography is about hard work and persistence, but also a bit of luck. Here’s an image from a 2010 assignment in Tamil Nadu, in southern India. I was in the small village of Poonthandalam, photographing some children in a church-sponsored after school tutoring program. It was late in the day, nice light, and interesting subjects. […]
Rain girl
I’ve always admired the great portrait photographers, people who could get someone to sit in front of them and then capture an image which—in the same fraction of a second—also captures some of that person’s character, or soul, or personality. A good portrait is more than just a collection of pixels representing the outline and […]