Enchantment Of The South Seas Islands

In !982, on a National Geographic Society assignment to produce a chapter, text and photographs, for a book titled Secret Corners of the World, I spent two months exploring the six inhabited islands of the Marquesas Archipelago in French Polynesia.  Walking along the stunning coast of Ua Huka Island, which I had to myself, I chanced upon these dancers, who were rehearsing for the French Bastille Day celebration. But then, such occasions are what makes travel off the tourist map so exciting.

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Mali: Gold-Adorned Red Fulani Woman

One of two red Fulani women I transported in my car over a few miles near Mali’s Bandiagara Cliffs. Each was carrying a big calabash of fresh milk, some of which they spilled on my rear seat. But they graciously posed for me at their destination. 

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Mali: Old Man Issued From The Shadow

In Djenné, Mali, this old man, with amazingly long legs, emerged from the shadow behind a wall to have a look at the equally curious photographer. 

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Indonesia: Rushing Home With The Groceries

In Indonesia’s Jakarta, the country’s capital in Java Island, a pedicab’s cargo leaves little room for its owner.

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Indonesia: How Our Stone-Age Ancestors Drank Water

In 1968, having spent four months crossing Indonesian Borneo from Pontianak on the west coast to Samarinda on the East coast on assignment for National Geographic, I traveled the next three months on a Venture magazine assignment photographing the Indonesian islands of Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, Sumba, Sumbaya, Timor, and Irian Jaya.

In Irian Jaya, in the western part of New Guinea, I reached the stone age. Literally, as the Dani tribe there were still using axes and agricultural tools made of polished stones. There I watched a boy drink from a river as do animals. Our distant ancestors may have done it too.

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Indonesia: Amazing How Much You Can Pile On A Bicycle

The world’s streets offer some of the most amazing spectacles. And they are free. I shot this earnest ciclyst near Jakarta , Indonesia, in 1968. 

Indonesia: Broken By A Demanding Job

Having transported people all day through the traffic of Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, this pedicab driver found a quiet spot to take a nap. Here’s a man who will never put on weight.

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Philippines: How To Carry Six Guitars And More

Guitar vendor in Manila, Philippines, is carrying his stock on his shoulders.

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Philippines: Two-Wheel Fun

Two-wheel taxi slicing the air of Philippines’Negros Island.

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Philippines: Fourteen On A Motorcycle

Up a steep road in the Philippines’ Negros Island, 13 boys are riding a motorcycle taxi’s side car to a soccer game. They were as flabbergasted at seeing a camera lens pointed at them as I was of their own circumstance.

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