Colombia: Atrato River Market At Quibdo

Plantain, manioc, sugarcane, coconuts, and pineapples are changing hands in Quibdo, at an Afro-American market on the Atrato River in Colombia’s Choco, a rain forest region and department bordering  the Pacific Coast.

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Colombia: Atrato River Market At Quibdo

 Plantain, manioc; sugarcane, coconuts, and pineapples are changing hands in  Quibdo, at an Afro-American market on the Atrato River in Colombia’s Choco, a rain forest region and department bordering the Pacific Coast.

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Colombia: Market Day Activity At Puerto Tejada

In this 1974 photograph, Colombia’s Puerto Tejada’s market activity , in the Cauca Department, is spilling over surrounding streets.

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Ethiopia: Asaita Street Scene

In Asaita, a village of Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression, a pack camel tied to a dilapidated truck awaits its Danakil nomad master patiently. The man is buying a few things in one of the shops surrounding the central square. The houses are all built of lava blocks.

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Ethiopia: Danakil Council Under A Lava Rock

In Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression, a small group of Danakil nomads holds a council under a rock. One of the men holds a goat by a rope.

     The Danakil Depression, part of the Great Rift Valley, is the world’s hottest region. It’s an inferno of active volcanoes, black lava fields as far as the eyes can see, vast salt lakes, and sulfur sources whose oxidation from yellow to green and brown are among this phenomenon’s few colors. And yet, it is of gripping beauty.

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Niger: Wodaabe Nomads’ Love For Their Cattle Is Reciprocated

The Wodaabe nomads of Niger’s Sahel treat and love their zebus like pets, giving each of them a name. They raise them for status, not for the butcher. Which is why this cow acts like a dog, licking its owner. Like dogs, too, Wodaabe zebus follow their owners on the march like children following a teacher. They cause no need to be prodded from behind.

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Algeria: Biskra Street Scene

Algeria’s Biskra’s deep shade that hid me while I shot the 1969 picture of my last post allowed me this second shot.

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Algeria: Biskra's light And Shadow

Street scene in Algeria’s Biskra.

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Algeria: A Ghardaia Oasis Busy Street

While the Sahara Desert’s sun shines brightly outside, a street of Algeria’s Ghardaia Oasis is shaded by wide pieces of fabric stretching between walls. The blue sky bathes the street in its own color.

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Algerian Sahara: Irrigating A Palm Grove

 In Algeria’s Kerzaz Oasis, a Harratin man pulls water from a deep well with a bucket balanced by poles weighed down with stones at their ends. He pours the water into a metallic canal that irrigates the palm grove surrounding him.

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Algeria. Shawia Berber Courtyard in Aurès Mountains

A courtyard separates several Shawia Berber houses in Algeria’s Aurès Mountains, part of the Saharan Atlas.

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Algeria: Magnificent Sahara

Ahaggar Mountains in Algeria’s Sahara Desert, the perfect region to find one's soul. Once, for a month, I explored it on a camel with a Tuareg companion.

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Chad: N’Djamena Bazaar

A 1973 photograph of N’Djamena, Chad’s capital. A man drops a coin in the hand of a seated beggar. Bazaar shops are shaded from the scorching sun by covered walkways.

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Indonesia: Prambanan Hindu Temple At Dusk

The blue light of dusk bathes Prambanan, a ninth-century Hindu temple and UNESCO World Heritage Site near Jogjakarta, in Indonesia’s Java Island. A volcano looms in the distance.

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Indonesian Borneo: A Wet Village Along The Kapuas River

A mosque overlooks the village of Selimbau along the Kapuas River, in Indonesia’s Borneo, known as Kalimantan. There were no roads there, in 1968, only rivers and the surrounding leech-infested rain forest.

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Ghana: Ashanti Schoolchildren Praying Before Classes

In Adukrom, near Kumasi, Ghana, Ashanti children, most of them in brown and yellow uniforms, pray before entering classes. Some of them are holding pencils.

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Ghana: Girls Carrying Own Chairs To School

Many years ago, when I shot this picture in Adukrom, an Ashanti village near Kumasi, the local school’s classes had benches but no chairs. Each morning, soon after dawn, children in school uniforms carried their own chairs to school on their heads. A boy in the background is taking a bucket shower. Outside school, a woman sold the kids breakfast at a price the kids’ parents could afford. 

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Ghana: Ashanti Family Walking To Its Field

After school, an Ashanti family is on its way to weed a corn field near Adukrom, a village near Kumasi. The father carries a shotgun in case he finds a bird or a small rodent to shoot for the pot. The basket on one of the girl’s head holds machetes.

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Ecuador: Herding Sheep From A Horse

Fourteen-year-old cowgirl moving sheep on her family’s hacienda near the small town of Salitre, in Ecuador’s Guayas Province. When the rainy season will start, with torrents cascading down the Andes Mountains, these lowlands will disappear under deep water. Moving around will then need the canoe sitting at the foot of the corral fence.

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Ecuador: Where Soccer Is Played Even In The Jungle

In a clearing of Ecuador’s coastal rain forest, Awa Indians play soccer (football) in a warm downpour. Mud there is a way of life.

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