Fascinating Humanity

Photojournalist Victor Englebert explores world cultures

Saturday, January 31, 2015

Algeria: Magnificent Sahara

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Ahaggar Mountains in Algeria’s Sahara Desert, the perfect region to find one's soul. Once, for a month, I explored it on a camel w...
Friday, January 30, 2015

Chad: N’Djamena Bazaar

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A 1973 photograph of N’Djamena, Chad’s capital. A man drops a coin in the hand of a seated beggar. Bazaar shops are shaded from the sc...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Indonesia: Prambanan Hindu Temple At Dusk

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The blue light of dusk bathes Prambanan , a ninth-century Hindu temple and UNESCO World Heritage Site near Jogjakarta, in Indon...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Indonesian Borneo: A Wet Village Along The Kapuas River

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A mosque overlooks the village of Selimbau along the Kapuas River, in Indonesia’s Borneo, known as Kalimantan. There were no road...
Monday, January 26, 2015

Ghana: Ashanti Schoolchildren Praying Before Classes

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In Adukrom, near Kumasi, Ghana, Ashanti children, most of them in brown and yellow uniforms, pray before entering classes. Some of them a...
Friday, January 23, 2015

Ghana: Girls Carrying Own Chairs To School

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Many years ago, when I shot this picture in Adukrom, an Ashanti village near Kumasi, the local school’s classes had benches but n...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

Ghana: Ashanti Family Walking To Its Field

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After school, an Ashanti family is on its way to weed a corn field near Adukrom, a village near Kumasi. The father carries a shotg...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Ecuador: Herding Sheep From A Horse

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Fourteen-year-old cowgirl moving sheep on her family’s hacienda near the small town of Salitre, in Ecuador’s Guayas Province. When the r...

Ecuador: Where Soccer Is Played Even In The Jungle

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In a clearing of Ecuador’s coastal rain forest, Awa Indians play soccer (football) in a warm downpour. Mud there is a way of life. T...
Monday, January 19, 2015

Colombia: Cali Street Scene

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I photographed this scene in Cali, Colombia, in the early nineties. Some of the city’s avenues closed to ...
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