Tuesday, April 24, 2012

How to Get your Back Washed without Wetting your Skirt


Niger. Sahel. Wodaabe nomad girls at well. They are taking a quick bath after watering their family's goats and filling their goat skins to bring back home, hanging them under the bellies of their donkeys.

Monday, April 23, 2012

A Good Way to Hide Bad Teeth



Kenya. Near Lake Turkana. Turkana nomad elder.

Would you like to take my kind of photographs? It's easy.
Join me on one of my self-assignments abroad. 

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Plastic Surgery

To improve their looks, people worldwide are getting increasingly under the knife. In Benin, as in other parts of Africa, the knife creates, or at least used to create, tribal identity through facial scars. Held down by her mother on a bed of leaves, the poor little girl was only four. But she needed the many dozens of sharp lines on her face to look like a Somba. And what a valiant little girl she was! She did not even cry.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Get help with your Migraine

Do you suffer from migraine? I’ll be happy to refer you to my friend, the Moroccan barber. He will make two incisions in your neck and suck its excess blood into small cups applied to the incisions. He promises you’ll walk away with a lighter head.