Fascinating Humanity

A vaquero , or cowboy, participating in a cattle roundup in Colombia’s LlanosOrientales , the vast grasslands spreading East of the An...

A mysterious woman in a mysterious back alley is carrying lunch and tea to a mysterious person behind a blue door. I caught the scene in...

A quiet family moment outside an adobe house on a street of Ethiopia’s Gambela . To view more Ethiopia photos on this blog, write...

A Tigrinya woman attending a crowded market in Mekelle , in Ethiopia’s Tigray Province, stands out by the luxury of her baby carrier,...

Standing on an elevated platform, Anuak children of Ethiopia, near Gambela, defend their family’s field from birds by hurling stones at...

Much tedious work goes into Anuak food preparation near Gambela, Ethiopia, as is demonstrated by those two young girls inside their fami...

Anuak girl of Ethipia, near Gambela, smoking a home-made water pipe while working at her family's outdoor kitchen. To view more E...

Twelve-year-old Birgit, featured previously in the last few days’ posts, and her 14-year-old sister Bel è n, leaving the family’s corral...

My last post showed four siblings riding a horse from a rural Ecuadorian school. Those of you who may have wondered how they got on the h...

Birgit, the teenage cowgirl l showed in my last two posts, has a full-time job on her family’s Ecuador estancia. One of them is to bri...