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 //   //  December 27, 2012  //  No Comments

East Africa Equinox

Angles on Tanzania in the days surrounding 21 December, 2012.

Lightscape: Aurora dance over the wooden carcass of an old mining tramway at the southern end of Longyearbyen. With a population of 2000, Longyearbyen is the only sizable pocket of humanity for 1000km in any direction, including north, where it's the last civilian settlement of any sort before the North Pole.
 //   //  December 20, 2012  //  No Comments

Midnight Latitudes

In the town of Longyearbyen, on the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, one rarely goes more than a day without hearing the boast “world’s northernmost”.

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 //   //  December 11, 2012  //  No Comments

Rome, Open City

Tourists and tourist attractions compete for camera time in Rome, Italy.

Clay Accordions.
 //   //  March 1, 2012  //  No Comments

Firework Hymns

Of the not-insignificant number of events around the world billing themselves as “the greatest show on Earth”, the Rio Carnival has a thicker-fingered hold on the title than most.

At Play in the Shadow of Ghosts
 //   //  February 18, 2012  //  3 Comments

The Road to Kabul

Kabul, rebuilt since 1992 to a reasonable facsimile of its pre-war shape, is a functioning city first and a fortified war hub second.

In Full View: Japan Quake Sparks Human Behaviour
March 16, 2011  //  2 Comments
The Japanese earthquake demonstrates the extent to which our contemporary states have become irrevocably interconnected ...
The Paleoglobalist: The Media Blackout That Wasn’t
April 14, 2011  //  No Comments
Little has changed in Ürümqi since riots grabbed the the international media's attention for a brief moment two years ...