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.
Sunday, May 11, 2014
Friday, May 9, 2014
Peru: Honoring Saint Mary In Procession
In Peru’s Andean town of Puno, on Saint Mary’s Day, a crowd is flowing out
of the cathedral following a representation of the Virgin Mary carried by
several men.
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.
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Peru: Celebrating Saint Mary's Day
In Corongo, a big village in Peru’s Andes Mountains, danses celebrate
Saint Mary’s Day.
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A Corongo, un gros village des Andes péruviennes, des
danses célèbrent le jour de Sainte Marie.
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.
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