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  • Bazaruto Island, Mozambique 2006 - Local boys tie the fisherman's catch on a pole by the gills with blades of grass.
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  • Municipal dump, Oaxaca, Mexico 1998 - A woman braces herself amidst the wind and smoke of the dump as a garbage truck expels new waste.  She is hoping to be first to pick though the garbage to scavenge materials she can sell for recycling. ..In the municipal dump a self governed group of 80 individuals and families eke out a living.  Los Pepenadors (the Pickers) work in a landscape of garbage and flames, blanketed by toxic smoke, along side bulldozers and garbage trucks.  They do the impossible job of recycling what the rest of their society can't be bothered to deal with. ...
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  • Moody view of 747 airplane wing out the window - 1988..One of my first solo flights to Europe when I first caught the travel bug - JFK or LHR
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  • New York - The World Trade Center in 1990, fading into a snowstorm.
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  • Municipal dump, Oaxaca, Mexico 1998 - A girl cries from fear while her older sister yells directions. Months of the family's work is lost as the scavenged materials they collected from the dump go up in flames during a spontaneous dump fire...In the municipal dump a self governed group of 80 individuals and families eke out a living.  Los Pepenadors (the Pickers) work in a landscape of garbage and flames, blanketed by toxic smoke, along side bulldozers and garbage trucks.  They do the impossible job of recycling what the rest of their society can't be bothered to deal with. ..
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  • Municipal dump, Oaxaca, Mexico 1998 - A girl plays with a mask found in the dump while her grandmother and family make an existence by selling scavenged recyclable materials...In the municipal dump a self governed group of 80 individuals and families eke out a living.  Los Pepenadors (the Pickers) work in a landscape of garbage and flames, blanketed by toxic smoke, along side bulldozers and garbage trucks.  They do the impossible job of recycling what the rest of their society can't be bothered to deal with. ..
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  • Williamsburg Bridge, New York - You can't get up here anymore.  A very unique collage view from the top of the Brooklyn tower looking over Domino sugar and the east river, 1989
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  • Fall River, Mass. - Tough kids burn around the back of an old mill on a moped with nothing better to do than flip off the photographer.
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  • Tribeca, New York - Ann street on a rainy night.
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  • Cairo, Egypt - The downtown McDonalds delivers by Vespa scooter.
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  • Cairo, Egypt, 1999 - Hand painted cinema and movie billboards cover a building site in Midan Orabi, downtown Cairo.
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  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - Boys play marbles on top of a grave.
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  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - Girl working in a make shift kitchen locker in her family compound among the grave markers.
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  • City of the Dead, Cairo - Mona Achmed, a tomb guardian.
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  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 1999 - A tomb guardian reads the paper.  For the inhabitants of the cemetery daily live goes on among the the graves.
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  • Egypt, 2000 - Egyptian western desert.  Lunch time rendezvous with the supply vehicle, an old FJ40 Landcruiser, midway through a Camel trek  across the sand sea desert between Farafra and Dakhla Oasis.
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  • City of the Dead, Cairo - Young family
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  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 1998 - Boy releases a pet dove in the family kitichen area while his mother sleeps next to a grave. Some 1/2 million people inhabit the massive, 7km long cemetery that borders the easter side of Cairo.  They form a complete civilization living on top of, within, and around the graves of their ancestors.
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  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead  - A boy plays with a pet dove while the cat watches. Some 1/2 million people inhabit the massive, 7km long cemetery that borders the easter side of Cairo.  They form a complete civilization living on top of, within, and around the graves of their ancestors.
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  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 1999 - Kids play among the tomb structures.
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  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - Resident undertakers kill time with dominoes an Egyptian national pastime.
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  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - Teenage girl outside her home next to the temporary water main.
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  • Mansura, Egypt 1998 - Portrait painters kiosk on street corner along the Nile.
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  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - A young boy home who hasn't gone to school that day.
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  • Nairobi, June 2010 - the Jenracy  children's programm and community school  was partially destroyed in a devastating fire. They were able to quickly rebuild  using shipping containers. The rooms were the children sleep were unaffected but the classrooms are now crammed but otherwise functional within the modified steel containers.
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  • Africa, Namibia 2004 - USA No Money, No Life. Bar in Namibia.
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  • Korioume, Mali 2009 - European travelers and a young girl  from Mali, wrapped head to toe in traditional  colorful wax resist prints,  watches the Niger River slide by from the ferry headed south from Timbuktu. The ferry forms the primary road link to Timbuktu.
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  • Korioume, Mali 2009 - A young girl from Mali, wrapped head to toe in traditional  colorful wax resist prints, watches the Niger River slide by from the ferry headed south from Timbuktu. The ferry forms the  primary road link to Timbuktu.
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