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Category Archives: Portraits

Day of the Dead, Land of the Living

Sunday, April 19, 2020

OAXACA — There is less distinction in Mexico between the great passions of love and death.  The two are acknowledged in life and depicted in art as intertwined, inseparable, a reminder of the other and the fleeting nature of human pursuit, the sweetness of the sun, the chill of the grave, the ever-present skull beneath […]

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Varanasi & Ganga Ma

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

  VARANASI — It is the black hours before dawn. The boat pushes out into the slow current. The ghats and towers of the ancient city are outlined in the light of dim electric bulbs and small fires. Those lights create a half circle of light over the river that fades into the black of […]

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The Camel Fair of Pushkar

Sunday, November 27, 2016
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A Moment in Traffic

Thursday, May 26, 2016

MUMBAI — I had been out photographing the streets of south Bombay all day.  It is the hot season.  I was tired and on my way home and almost ready to put my camera in its bag.  We stopped at an intersection and I looked over to see a little girl staring at me.  I stared […]

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Bring the Mountain to Mumbai

Thursday, May 19, 2016
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On The Streets of Mumbai

Monday, July 6, 2015
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On the Streets of Mumbai

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

 

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Mumbai Street

Friday, June 5, 2015
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Centro Santa Catalina

Thursday, February 12, 2015

JUAREZ — South of the city the trash fires burn, sending a rolling plume of black smoke towards the sky. The Centro Santa Catalina is a compound in a very poor neighborhood that encloses several buildings including a church, a school and the workshop. In the organization’s words, “We are a faith based community founded […]

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Portraits of Grace, House of Hope

Sunday, February 1, 2015

To see a digital preview and to buy the book Portraits of Grace, House of Hope, click on this link:  http://www.blurb.com/books/5960660-portraits-of-grace-house-of-hope# ARLINGTON–I first saw Casa Esperanza in the fall of 2006. I spent no more than an hour there, on my way to somewhere else, but it remained etched in my memory. My thoughts would […]

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