Fascinating Humanity

Across the border from Ethiopia is the small country of Djibouti, which before 1977, as a French colony, was known as French Somaliland. W...

Because the geological expedition I had to photograph was being delayed, I traveled to Tendaho, a dusty town at the southern end of the Da...

Before beginning this next salt post,  I feel I should tell you more about the Danakil Depression, an extraordinary corner of the earth. I...

Ethiopia. Great Rift Valley. Tigrinya caravan walking down the escarpment from Makale, in the Tigré Mountains, to get salt from dry Lak...

 Niger. Sahara.  Near Bilma. Tuareg nomad wraps salt cones inside straw mats. He got the salt from a Kanuri miner in exchange for artic...