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East Africa Equinox
December 27, 2012, No Comments

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.
Midnight Latitudes
December 20, 2012, No Comments

In the town of Longyearbyen, on the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, one rarely goes more than a day without hearing ...

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Rome, Open City
December 11, 2012, No Comments

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

Clay Accordions.
Firework Hymns
March 1, 2012, No Comments

Of the not-insignificant number of events around the world billing themselves as "the greatest show on Earth", the Rio C ...

At Play in the Shadow of Ghosts
The Road to Kabul
February 18, 2012, 3 Comments

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

Manpower:
Flightline II: Parting Shots
December 26, 2011, No Comments

The flightline at Kandahar Airfield loses another flag as flight crews disassemble and ship out Canada's last combat hel ...

Humvee Dust Up:
Combat Close-Out
December 19, 2011, 1 Comment

For all the ink, here and elsewhere, given to its Operation Attention training mission in Kabul, Canada's largest operat ...

Embrace:
Brazil’s Cidade Maravilhosa
December 10, 2011, 2 Comments

Rio de Janeiro is a city of many faces, few of them subtle.

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Hockey Night in Kandahar
November 8, 2011, No Comments

Of all the strange and unlikely pleasures to be found on the coalition bases of southern Afghanistan, the hockey rink at ...

Sights:
Basic Warrior Training
October 31, 2011, 2 Comments

Increasingly prized by the NATO-led international military campaign as their ticket out of Afghanistan, the eight-year-o ...