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postcard no.//009 – the virus hunter

Friday, February 13th, 2009

deep in the interior of africa in the dense jungles of cameroon, where scientists have determined that HIV originated, jumping from chimps to humans possibly more than a century ago, the Global Viral Forecast team of Dr. Nathan Wolfe is searching for the newest viral threats with the hope of stopping the next global disease [...]

postcard no.//007 – countdown: kisumu

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

22:17:20 E.A.T. november 04, 2008 – club obama! the terrace restaurant at the kisumu imperial hotel 01:15am. swatting the mosquitos, clapping them really. alone, in a dirty banquet room, the tables dressed in maroon fatigues, the chairs with those white slip cover things look like klansmen or maybe something out of fantasia. lots of bad [...]

kenyan gold

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

screenshots from the Runner’s World Magazine 2008 Beijing Olympics slideshow. i don’t think i’ve ever photographed someone as nice as martin lel. especially considering that he’s got a lot on his mind, or should I say, under his feet, what with winning marathons and all — 10 out of the last 13, actually. and those [...]

postcard no.//003

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

abyei,sudan//3.23.08 The Man for a New Sudan by Eliza Griswold. Photographs by J Carrier. “When Roger Winter’s single-engine Cessna Caravan touched down near the Sudanese town of Abyei on Easter morning, a crowd of desperate men swamped the plane. Some came running over the rough red airstrip. Others crammed into a microbus that barreled toward [...]