Weaving With A Backstrap Loom

In Peru’s small Andean town of Uchucmarca, in Amazonas Province, a girl is using a backstrap loom to weave a poncho outside her family’s house.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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

Sunflower Fire At Dusk

Sunflowers shining at dusk under Colombian Andes Mountains.

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Tournesols brillant au crépuscule d’Andes colombiennes.

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.

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. 

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.