Colombia: Sun-Beaten Amazon Cofan Man

Sweating Cofan man of Colombia’s Putumayo region of the Amazon rain forest.

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Homme Cofan de la région amazonienne colombienne du Putumayo au visage couvert de soudeur.

Colombia: Fishing In Flooded Amazon Rain Forest

Yagua woman using a fishing line from the prow of her canoe to catch fish in a flooded area of Colombia’s Amazon rain forest.

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Femme Yagua pêchant a la ligne de la proue de son canot dans une partie inondée de l’Amazonie colombienne.

Colombia: Cofan Headman And Wife Portrait

A Cofan headman and his wife look out of their hut’s windows in Colombia’s Amazon rain forest. Their tribe lives across the Colombian-Ecuador’s border. The man’s necklace is made of the canine teeth of jaguars he has killed.

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Chef Cofan et sa femme aux fenêtres de leur hutte en Amazonie colombienne. Leur tribu vit de chaque côté de la frontière Colombo-Equatorienne. Le collier de l’homme est fait de canines de jaguars qu’il a tués.

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Ethiopia: Danakil Woman Herding Goats In Danakil Depression

Hardly visible against her mostly grayish background, a Danakil woman is herding goats in Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression.

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Difficilement visible contre un fond gris, une femme Danakil conduit ses nombreuses chèvres au pâturage dans la dépression Danakil, en Ethiopie.

Cameroon: Image Of Power And Privilege

Monument at the entrance of a chief’s compound near Foumbot, Cameroon.

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Monument a l’entrée d’une propriété de chef près de Foumbot, au Cameroun.

Life Under A Philippines Volcano

Plowing a rice field under Mayon Volcano near Legazpi, in the Philippines’ Luzon Isand.

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Labourant un champ de riz sous le volcan Mayon près de Legazpi, dans l’île philippine de Luzon.

Africa: Women's Burden

Anuak sisters pounding and winnowing corn inside their family hut near Gambela, Ethiopia.

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Petites sœurs Anuak pilent et vannent du maïs dans leur hutte familiale près de Gambela, en Ethiopie

Ethiopia: Anouak Mother And Baby

An Anouak mother enjoys her baby outside her hut near Gambela, Ethiopia.

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Une mère Anouak jouit de son bébé hors de sa hutte près de Gambela, en Ethiopie.

Niger: Tuareg Women Portrait

This additional photo of my 1969 Sahel journey shows two Tuareg girls sheltering in their tent from the mid-day sun.

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Cette nouvelle photo de mon séjour au Sahel de 1969 montre deux jeunes filles touarègues s’abritant du soleil de midi sous leur tente.

Niger:Tuareg Nomads Riding Donkeys From The Well

Another picture from my 1969 Sahel journey. The one I posted yesterday was of Wodaabe nomads. This one is of Tuareg nomads riding away from a well. Water-filled goat skin bags hang from the bellies of their donkeys.

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Une autre photo de mon séjour de 1969 au Sahel. La photo d’hier était de nomades Wodaabe (Bororo). Celle-ci montre des femmes Touarègues s’éloignant d’un puits. Des outres de peau de chèvres remplies d’eau pendent sous le ventre de leurs ânes. 

Niger: Wodaabe Nomads On The Way To A Dance

In 1969, when I took this picture, black-and-white was still much in use because it was much cheaper to print. Still, I needed to shoot in color as well, which I did. Because zoom lenses had not yet reached professional quality I used only primary lenses. And to be ready for anything happening, I always worked with two cameras, a Leica M2 with a 35 mm lens and a Nikon F with a 105 mm lens. I also carried a similar pair of cameras so equipped to shoot black-and-white. Thankfully, those cameras were relatively small and light compared to professional digital cameras today, of which you need only one toady for any situation. Additionally, for when I had the time to change lenses, I carried Nikon lenses of 20, 28, and 50 mm in a pouch on my belt. Still, I used my Leica the most, as it was the easiest to hide when necessary to shoot unobtrusively, and because I liked to shoot close to my subjects.

I shot this picture in Niger’s Sahel while working on four books on African children of different countries. But my experience with this tribe, the Woodabe, and that of the Tuareg, who I was also shooting there, got me the following year a National Geographic assignment to do a chapter on each of those tribes for their book, Nomads of the World. At that time I would shoot only color.

The men here are singing at the rhythm of their companion’s hand-clapping. They are on their way to a Yakey dance, which doubles as a male beauty contest, where they will grimace comically, rolling eyes and showing teeth to display their whiteness, as I have shown in previous posts.

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Photo de 1969 de nomades Wodaabe, connus aussi comme Bororo, en chemin vers un yakey, une  danse qui est à la fois un concours de beauté masculine. Joyeux, ils chantent, rythmés par les battements de mains de leur compagnon.

Bolivia: Haunting Face Of The Altiplano

One of the many stunning faces of Bolivia’s mineral southern Altiplano, a high and bitter cold plateau between two Andean cordilleras, home to Quechua miners and llama and alpaca herder.

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L’un des extraordinaires visages du minéral Altiplano bolivien, un haut plateau glacé entre deux cordillères andines, terre d’indiens Quechua, mineurs et éleveurs de lamas et alpacas.

Ecuador: Lure Of The Sweet Mango

A 14 –year-old cowgirl stands on her wooden saddle to hit down a few sweet mangoes near Salitre, in Ecuador’s coastal Guayas State.

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Debout sur sa selle de bois une cowgirl de 14 ans fait tomber de l’arbre de douces et juteuses mangues près de Salitre, dans la province côtière Equatorienne de Guayas. 

A Time for Horses, A Time For Canoes

Flooded cattle plains near Salitre, in Ecuador’s coastal Guayas Province. For eight months of the year these grasslands teem with zebus watched over by many cowboys. Come the rains in January, and the men move the cattle to higher ground, leaving the savanna as a vast shallow lake covered in many places by water lilies. During four months, until the rains stop and the waters recede, the men will have to cook their own meals, for women and children will remain behind, now moving around by canoe. The seasonal effects on these lowland people and their landscape are stunning.

Honduras: Walking Home From School

Under the bright and heavy Roatan Island sun, off the coast of Honduras, two little girls plod wearily home from school under a vault of palm leaves.

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Sous le brillant et lourd soleil de l’île de Roatan, au large de la côte du Honduras, deux petites filles s’acheminent de l’école à leurs maisons sous une voûte de palmiers.

Bolivia: Selling Poultry On The Streets Of Sucre

The sale of these birds is all these Quechua women standing against a wall of Sucre’s market in Bolivia have to contribute to their family’s survival. And there are millions like them around the world. A reminder to be grateful for our own lives.

Brazil: Rio Negro Flood

Brazil’s Rio Negro, main tributary of the Amazon River, has flooded its banks, killing the forest and forcing families to move to their houseboats. The Rio Negro can rise as much as 14 meters.

Brazil: Red And White River In The Amazon

The Urucu River carries away the foam of its spectacular falls upstream. Its waters are reddish like tea because, when overflowing their banks, they infuse the forest’s dry leaves. They even taste like tea.

     The Amazon rain forest is not the Green Hell some explorers of old, in search of glory, would make people believe. At least not if you are not lost in it and losing your wits and your life.  It provides its Indians a happy and comfortable life working on average less than three hours a day.

     In fact, it is the world’s most beautiful garden. Photographing this river made me fantasize about floating down it on my back, as it seemed that it must lead to some terrestrial paradise.

My computer did not start this morning, apparently from some hardware problem. I'll try to get help tomorrow, Monday. I'm writing from my wife's computer, but have no access to my digital photos. I hope to start posting new pictures again soon.

Collecting Piaçava In The Brazilian Amazon

Caboclos, mestizos of Brazil’s Amazon rain forest, cutting piaçava—the fibers of decayed palm leaves used in the manufacture of industrial brushes, brooms, ropes, and more.

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Caboclos, métis de l’Amazonie brésilienne, coupant du piaçava—des fibres de feuilles de palmiers sèches et effritées qui s’utilisent dans la fabrication de balais, de brosses industrielles, et de cordes.

Colombia: Antioquia Market Day

On market day, in Colombia’s Andean town of Antioquia, a farmer returns home from the market with purchases loaded on an ox. Along the wall other farmers are waiting their turn to sell their bags of coffee inside the office of a coffee growers  cooperative where it will be evaluated first.

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Un jour de marché en Colombie, dans la petite ville andine d’Antioquia, un fermier retourne chez lui avec quelques achats que transporte son bœuf. Le long du mur d’autres fermiers attendent leurs tours de vendre leurs sacs de café a l’intérieur du bureau d’une coopérative de producteurs de café ou il sera d’abord évalué. 

Philippines Street Fight

Amateur boxing match in a street of La Carlota, in the Philippines’ Mindanao island.

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Rencontre de boxeurs amateurs dans une rue de La Carlota, dans l’île philippine de Mindanao.

Djibouti: Danakil Boy Herding Goats

Danakil nomad boy herding goats across Djibouti’s Lake Abbe's dry side, which is covered with a crust of salt.

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Garçon Danakil menant des chèvres au pâturage sur le lac Abbe de Djibouti, dont cette partie asséchée est couverte de sel.

Eritrea And the Shark Fins' Trade

In Thio, on Eritrea’s Red Sea coast, Danakil fishermen are eviscerating small sharks, which they will later salt and dry for export to China via Aden, in South Yemen. Photo 1963.

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A Thio, sur la côte Erythréenne de la mer rouge, des pêcheurs Danakil éviscèrent de petits requins qu’ensuite ils saleront et étaleront a sécher pour l’exportation en Chine, via Aden, au sud du Yémen. Photo 1963.

Eritrea: Danakil Waterhole

At sunrise near Thio, on Eritrea’s Red Sea coast, an old Danakil man rests on his shovel after unclogging a water hole in a dry river bed. His grandson pulls water from the hole to fill the bag on the donkey. 

     Unlike desert Danakil, who raise camels and goats and are nomadic, coastal Danakil are settled and civilized. At the time of this photograph, in 1967, they fished sharks whose fins they exported to Aden, in south Yemen, from where they found their way to China.

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Aux premiers rayons du soleil près de Thio, sur la côte Erythréenne de la mer rouge, un homme Danakil se repose sur sa pelle après avoir retiré du sable d’un trou d’eau dans le lit sec d’une rivière. Son petit-fils  en puise de l’eau pour remplir le sac sur l’âne.

     Contrairement aux Danakil nomades du désert, qui élèvent des chameaux et des chèvres, les pêcheurs Danakil de la mer rouge sont civilisés. A l’époque de cette photo, en 1967, ils pêchaient des requins dont les ailerons s’exportaient en Chine via Aden, au Yémen.

Ethiopia's Danakil, Or Life At Its Harshest

 Ethiopia’s Danakil nomads build their huts on the Danakil Depressions lava fields, leaving what little grass-producing sand is available to their camels and goats.  No region on earth is hotter than theirs, and the lava does all it can to keep it so.

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Les nomades Danakil d’Ethiopie montent leurs huttes sur les champs de lave de la dépression Danakil pour laisser à leurs chameaux et chèvres les petites étendues de sable ou pousse un peu d’herbe. Aucune région au monde est plus chaude que la leur et la lave fait tout ce qu’elle peut pour quecela reste ainsi.

Algeria: Ghardaia Oasis Market

1963 photograph of the market place of Algeria’s Ghardaïa Oasis and Berber inhabitants.

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Photo de 1963 du marché de l’oasis algérienne de Ghardaïa et de ses Berbères.

Indonesia's Tengger Volcanic Complex

Tengger Volcanic Complex of Indonesia’s Java Island at dawn. It includes the Bromo and Semeru Volcanoes. At 3,676 meters, Semeru is Indonesia's tallest mountain.

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Complexe volcanique Tengger sur l’ile indonésienne de Java à l’aube. Il inclut les volcans Bromo et Semeru. Les 3,676 mètres de Semeru en font la montagne la plus élevée d’Indonésie.

Honduras: Leisurely Life Of Roatan Island

In Honduras’ Caribbean Islands of Roatan, also known as Bay Islands, life follows a centuries’ old leisurely pace.

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Au Honduras, dans l’ île antillaise de Roatan, la vie se déroule au pas tranquille des siècles passés.

Aerial Photo Of Brazilian Amazon's Overflowing Rio Negro

Aerial photo of Brazil’s Rio Negro flooding its surroundings near Manaus. The Rio Negro is the Amazon River’s most important tributary and, after the Amazon, the most powerful river of South America.

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Photo aérienne du Rio Negro inondant ses rives près de Manaus. Le Rio Negro est l’affluent le plus important de l’Amazone et, après l’Amazone, la rivière la plus puissante d’Amérique du Sud.

Brazil: Gold Shines Inside Salvador's Sao Francisco Church

In Brazil, gold dazzles the faithful during mass in Salvador’s Sao Francisco Church.

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Au Brésil, l’or éblouit les fidèles durant une messe dans l’église Sao Francisco à Salvador.

Brazil: Life In The Amazon

Hut of a family of mestizo settlers along the Padauari River, a small  tributary of Brazil’s Rio Negro, in Brazil’s Amazon rain forest. Two canoes float at the foot of the ladder.

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Hutte d’une famille de colons métis le long de la rivière Padauari, un petit affluent du Rio Negro, en Amazonie brésilienne.Deux canots flottent au pied de l'échelle.

Lions: Lords Of The Savanna

Lions in Kenya’s Nairobi National Park

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Lions au Parc National de Nairobi, au Kenya

Pre-Taliban Afghan Nomads Sharing Meal

In the fall of 1965 I followed the slow migration of Kuchi nomads from Afghanistan’s 

cooling Hindu Kush Mountains down to warmer Indus valleys where they would spend the winter. The spectacle of those colorfully dressed Pashtun people herding thousands of camels, sheep, goats, donkeys, and cows down the rugged mountains was impressive. Some of them were traders who transported wool, meat, and dairy products to sell. The three traders pictured here were having a late lunch of soft cheese. They had unloaded their camels for the day and stacked their bundles into a protective wall against the wind.

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Durant l’automne de 1965 j’ai suivi une migration de nomades Kouchi entre les froides montagnes afghanes de l’Hindou Kouch et les chaudes vallées de l’Indus où ils passeraient l’hiver. Le spectacle de ces familles Pashtoun, aux vêtements de couleurs vives, et de leurs vastes troupeaux de moutons, chèvres, chameaux, ânes et vaches était impressionnant. Quelques-uns d’entre eux, des hommes, étaient des marchands. Ils transportaient à chameau de la laine, de la viande et des produits laitiers. Les trois marchands de cette photo s’étaient arrêtés pour la journée et partageaient une casserole de fromage. Ils avaient érigé un mur de leurs charges pour les protéger du vent.

Colombia: Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta's Cloud Forest

Steaming cloudforest on the slopes of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.

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Forêt des nuages sur les pentes de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta en Colombie.

Peru: Inca Sun Temple

Sun temple in Peru’s Andean Inca Sacred Valley above Pisac.

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Temple du soleil dans la vallée sacrée Inca des Andes péruviennes près de Pisac.

Colombia: Rural Scene

Girls wringing sheet they washed in river near Atanquez, in Colombia’s  Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.

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Jeunes filles tordant drap de lit qu’elles ont lavé dans la rivière près d’Atanquez, dans la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

Morocco: Berber Woman of The High Atlas

Ait Haddidu Berber Woman of Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains.

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Femme Berbère Ait Haddidu du Haut-Atlas Marocain

Bolivia: Llamas On A Rocky Path.

Walking up this rocky path in the Bolivian Altiplano, ahead of a llama salt caravan I was traveling with, I found those three llamas watching our own llamas across a ravine with much interest. Llamas can’t stand llamas they did not grow up with. They lose no opportunity to start fighting with them.

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Grimpant ce sentier rocailleux dans l’Altiplano bolivien, a la tête d’une caravane de lamas transportant du sel avec laquelle je voyageais, j’ai rencontré ces trois lamas fort intrigués par ceux de ma caravane de l’autre côté d’un ravin. Les lamas ne supportent pas les lamas qui ne font pas partie de leurs groupes et ne perdent jamais l’occasion de leur chercher querelle.

Cameroon Madrassa

Sitting on a bench of a madrassa in Cameroon’s Bamenda Highlands, a Bororo girl transcribes a page of the Koran on a wooden tablet.

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Assise sur le banc d’une école coranique au Cameroun, dans la région de Bamenda, une fillette Bororo transcrit une page du coran sur une tablette de bois.

Cameroon: Mousgoum Architecture

Mousgoum woman posing outside her typical Mousgoum hut near Pouss, in North Cameroon.

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Femme Mousgoum posant a l’extérieur de sa hutte typique près de Pouss, au nord du Cameroun.

Algeria: Beautiful Kerzaz Oasis

A late afternoon sun is warming the colors of the Saharan oasis of Kerzaz.

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Dans sa chute vers l’horizon le soleil dore les couleurs de l’oasis saharienne de Kerzaz.

Chile : Vivid Colors Under A Dark Sky

Castro, a small town in Chile’s Chiloe Island, struggles with all its colors against the gloomy sky.

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Castro, petite ville de l’île chilienne de Chiloé, lutte de toutes ses couleurs contre la mélancolie  du ciel.

Argentina: Colors Of Buenos Aires

Argentina: A street of La Boca, a colorful Buenos Aires neighborhood.

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Une rue de La Boca, quartier riche en couleurs de Buenos Aires, en Argentine.

Afghanistan: Tea Shop At Dusk

In this 1965 shot taken in Ghazni some elders drink tea on a second-floor tea shop at nightfall while vendors await the day’s last customers down along the street.

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Dans cette photo de 1965 prise au crépuscule à Ghazni des patriarches boivent le thé dans un salon de deuxième étage tandis que des vendeurs de melons attendent les derniers clients en bas, le long de la rue.

Madagascar: Wood Carvings Crowning Mahafaly Tombs

Daily life scenes as illustrated in the wood carvings crowning Mahafaly tombs near Tulear in Madagascar.

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Scènes de la vie quotidienne Mahafaly illustrées par des statuettes élevées sur leurs tombes près de Tuléar, à Madagascar.  

Amazon: Girl Meets Boy

A small girl meets a boy her age on the Jauperi River, a tributary of Brazil’s Rio Negro, in the Amazon rain forest.

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Une fillette rencontre un petit garçon de son âge sur la rivière Jauperi, affluent du Rio Negro en Amazonie brésilienne.

Colombian Scenery

Laguna de Sonso, a lake of the Colombia’s Cauca Valley Department.

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Laguna de Sonso, un lac du département de la vallée du Cauca en Colombie.