Archive for the 'middle east' Category

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 it really is, [...]

postcard no.//008 – out of the fire. . .

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

anywhere but there. for refugees from the horn of africa, staying in their war ravaged homelands is an increasingly suicidal option. fleeing the never ending cycles of conflict and drought in somalia and ethiopia refugees risk their lives during the arduous trek across land to the smuggling towns that lie along the northern shores of [...]