Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Across Africa on a Vespa Scooter





Once, in a previous life, and as a first of many great adventures, I rode a Vespa 125cc from Brussels, my home town, to Cape Town through the length of Africa. Here I was, in this scratched image, struggling against the Sahara,  and later among the Pygmies of the Congo's Ituri forest.

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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Sensual Desert Woman



Niger. Sahel. Tuareg woman sitting under her leather tent . Though Moslem, Tuareg Women like her enjoy freedom and rights that Western women could only envy.
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Sunday, June 10, 2012

Saddle-hardened, a Colombian Cowboy's Butt Finds Comfort Sitting on a Corral Fence's Picket



Colombia. Llanos Orientales. Resting from spending a day separating calves from cows and felling them to mark them in a sea of mud, a weary and muddied cowboy sits on a corral fence's picket, the only dry spot around. Colombian cowboys use no boots. They work and ride horses barefoot.
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Saturday, June 9, 2012

Kuna Mother and Daughter


Colombia. Choco rain forest. Gulf of Uraba. Kuna Indian mother and daughter sitting inside their hut.
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Friday, June 8, 2012

Manicure al Fresco, a Woman at each Hand




Philippines. Negros Island. Bacolod. Manicurists attend customers in the town's central square. A man, elsewhere on the square, is doing someone's feet.
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Thursday, June 7, 2012

Armed and Dangerous Colombian Cowboy


Colombia. Llanos Orientales. A revolver at his side and a cigarette in his right hand, a cowboy is selecting, among a herd of horses in a corral,  the four horses that he will exhaust, one after another,  in a day's work. 
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Monday, June 4, 2012

If You Can't Move A Sheep, Carry It.


Bolivia. Near Potosi. Quechua Indians carrying sheep to market.

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