Sunday, May 11, 2014

Peru: A Great Husband


Shucking corn in his backyard was only one of the many activities this quiet man happily shared with his wife in the small town of Uchucmarca in Peru’s Amazonas Province. While on a 1976 Natural History magazine assignment in the couple’s remote region, which lacked accommodations of any type, I had to base myself in their modest house. But the bread they baked and sold to their neighbors, and the wife’s alfalfa soup, were among the best I tasted anywhere.


Thursday, May 8, 2014

Peru: Brisk Business At An Indian Market


Is there a better place anywhere to photograph people with their guards down than at markets? I don’t think so.  Imagine how visible a blond, blue-eyed photographer dressed differently from the surrounding crowd should be. But to women anxious to put their hands on the best cabbage I was not even there. I shot this scene in Pisac, in the Cusco province of Peru’s Andes Mountains, some time in the seventies. 

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Eritrea: The Struggle For Water


Against a sinking sun, along Eritrea’s Red Sea Coast near Thio, two Danakil boys are filling canvas bags on a donkey with the water of a drying river.
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Au soleil couchant, le long de la côte Erythréenne de la mer rouge à Thio, ces garçons Danakil remplissent des sacs de toile sur l’âne avec l’eau de ce qui reste d’une rivière en voie d’asséchement

Monday, May 5, 2014

Sunflower Fire At Dusk


Sunflowers shining at dusk under Colombian Andes Mountains.
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Tournesols brillant au crépuscule d’Andes colombiennes.

Sunday, May 4, 2014

Venezuela : Warau Hamlet In The Orinoco Delta


Warau Indians of Venezuela’s Orinoco Delta gathering taros they harvested in their marshy jungle garden and brought home in their canoe below.
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Femmes Warau du delta de l’Orénoque au Venezuela rassemblent des taros qu’elles ont ramenés de leur jardin marécageux de la forêt dans leur canot plus bas.

Saturday, May 3, 2014

Afghanistan: End Of Day, Time To Rest

Men rest and women hide at the purple end of a day in Ghazni, Afghanistan. A tea shop occupies the house’s second floor.
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A la lumière pourpre d’une fin de journée à Ghazni, en Afghanistan, les hommes se reposent et les femmes se cachent. Un salon de thé occupe le deuxième étage de la maison. 


Friday, May 2, 2014

Afghanistan: Caravanserai At Dusk

I shot this caravanserai at dusk in Ghazni, Afghanistan, in 1965 while on a National Geographic assignment to document a summer-end migration of Kuchi (Pashtun) nomads from the cooling Hindu Kush Mountains down to the warmer lowlands around Jalalabad.
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J’ai photographié ce caravansérail à Ghazni, en Afghanistan, en 1965. Le magazine National Geograpic m’y avait envoyé pour photographier la migration de fin d’été des nomades Kuchi (Pashtoun) et de leurs troupeaux entre les froides montagnes de l’Hindou Kouch et les terres chaudes autour de Jalalabad.


Thursday, May 1, 2014

Ghana: A Sunny Day In The Countryside


A dirt road cuts through a deciduous forest near Tamale, North Ghana. To watch how nimbly the two young women are walking, you would never suspect how heavy their water buckets are.
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Près de Tamale, au nord du Ghana, deux jeunes femmes marchent le long d’une route de terre à travers une forêt à feuilles caduques. Le poids de leurs seaux d’eau ne quitte rien à l’agilité de leurs mouvements.