Saturday, July 19, 2014

Morocco: High Atlas Berbers

A 1967 photo of AÏt Haddidu Berber sisters from Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains.

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Thursday, July 17, 2014

Morocco: How Berbers Play


In 1967, during my four-month journey around Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains photographing several Berber tribes, I was treated everywhere like a long-lost friend. There was no electricity, no television. But there was a heartwarming social life.

Except when dancing to celebrate a Moslem festival, women and men kept apart from each other. Men with men and women with women. But both sexes always worked and played and chatted in often large friendly groups. Everyone cared for the other. And they all cared for me.

They worked hard in the fields, in the kitchens, and at the distaffs and looms. And they played just as hard, as if they never tired. Even after a long work day, the women leapfrogged and the men played a local variety of hockey. Or they used rag balls in other spirited games, like this one, as the long March night was looming.
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Morocco: Riding A Mule Under Eternal Snow

Here’s another 1967 picture shot in Morocco’s High Atlas mountains. The big Ait Haddidu Berber vllage, in the beautiful Dades Valley, was Imilchil.
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Morocco: Hard-Working Girl


Spirited Ait Haddidu Berber girl up in a moor in Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains to uproot some low brushes to feed her family’s fire.

In 1967 I spent four months living among Morocco’s Berbers. My story, Trek by Mule Among Morocco’s Berbers made the cover of the June 1968 issue of National Geographic magazine.
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Monday, July 14, 2014

Why Were Women Ever Called The Weak Sex?


In 1982, on assignment to illustrate a Time-Life book on Brazil’s Yanomami Indians, I shared those wonderful people’s lives for a month. Thanks to Bruce Albert, a young anthropologist who spoke their language and was deeply loved by them, I never missed a good photo opportunity.  The book was part of a series called People of the Wild.
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Saturday, July 12, 2014

Peru: Shy Girls, Vibrant Boys



 Here’s a broader view of the small gang my last post showed you of VillaSalvador, a shantytown in the desert outskirts of Lima, Peru—stoic girls on one side and worked-up boys on the other.
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Friday, July 11, 2014

Peru: Rough And Tumble


In the late seventies I spent some weeks photographing life in several slums of Lima, Peru, including that of Villa Salvador, out in the desert, where I shot this picture. As usual, I enjoyed myself most around children. I could not have made them happier if I had brought them ice cream. They were grateful for my attention and expected nothing else from me. They did not know they were poor and could not have behaved better towards me.
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Thursday, July 10, 2014

Philippines: Aren't Children Similar Everywhere?


I shot this bunch of students as they left school one afternoon in Tacloban,  in Philippines’ Leyte Island, ready for some fun and not the least intimidated by the foreign photographer. I was ready for some fun myself.
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Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Ecuador: More On Montubios' Day

Hereafter are a few additional photos to illustrate my last post yesterday about Montubios’ Day parade in Ecuador’s Salitre. To view it again click on yesterday’s date or go to






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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Ecuador: Montubio Day


    The Montubios, as the mestizos of Ecuador’s coastal lowlands call themselves, celebrate October 12 not as America’s Columbus Day, or Latin America’s Día de la Raza, but as Día de los Montubios. And not just on that day but over three. I watched all three days and found them all worth my photographer’s time. Still, the first day was the most exciting. I did not see any foreigners there, nor did I notice Andean Ecuadoreans, but the event, playing out most famously in Salitre, a small town at a 40-minute taxi ride from Guayaquil, is very local.

That first day featured a morning parade and an afternoon rodeo. Circling the small town, the parade was dedicated entirely to groups of folkloric dancers of all ages and backgrounds.

The day started quietly with elegant amazons riding through the streets of Salitre, waiting to join the parade and obviously proud of displaying their ample dresses, which covered their horses as in medieval times. Each of the numerous dance groups was headed by a motorized tricycle taxi broadcasting the lively music needed to support the colorful dancers. Though I was never a fan of parades, I enjoyed that one.

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