Archive for the 'photo essays' Category

international photography awards//3rd place

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

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excited to announce that my essay “paradise lost: sudan” comprised of work from the past four plus years, placed third in the international photography awards editorial photo essay category. hopefully i can make it back to NYC for the lucie awards and represent with nadav and platon!
check out the winners gallery to see [...]

postcard no.011 // this maze of shadows

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

and how to make sense of it all, all the years of blood and despair? to make sense of the fact that THIS is what IT is all about, this place! and to realize that people actually LIVE here, and have — for millennia.
i try to imagine the old city as [...]

postcard no.//010 - blackboard jungle

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

“After we pull our land rover off the track to watch a pair of leopards, I ask my two safari guides what animal they’d be most excited to see. I’m thinking elephants, lions, rhinos — the charismatic megafauna that attract tourists from across the world. Their answer: aardvarks and porcupines…”
— from “kenya’s blackboard jungle” [...]

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 [...]