• Waking Up In Yemen

    I spent my first days and nights in Yemen with this view from my sleeping room. This is sunrise in the ancient part of Sanaa, the capital city, where the buildings and alleys, stone gates, walls and walkways have not changed since Medieval times. The markets are lively here; their chaos and colorful aggressive vendors […]

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    May 6, 2020 By Redburnusa
  • The Mask Is The Meaning

      I was traveling by car with two companions along the Aegean coast near Ephesus. The driver — an Englishman with long experience in Turkey — suggested we detour through lush agricultural land. He knew this artichoke farmer personally; so when I asked to make photographs, the fellow was among friends and there was little […]

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    May 3, 2020 By Redburnusa
  • Changing Cultures

    Every world traveler has a tale of culture shock. I met a middle-aged man at a cafe in Istanbul before I plunged into the Nile Civilization; he constructed a sentence in a fashion I had not heard before. He made a city the subject, shock the verb, and culture with a possessive marker the direct object: […]

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    April 21, 2020 By Redburnusa
  • Jubilation

    In darkness I waded into this jubilant crowd with one camera and a single fast lens. I have rarely witnessed such joy and chaos. Football fans — packing torches and giant flags — seemed to materialize all at once from every direction; buses lined up to disgorge mostly young people keen to celebrate a victory. […]

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    April 10, 2020 By Redburnusa

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