Travel & Photo Journals
What is a photo? I mean what is about freezing time in a photograph that triggers emotions, and creative impulses? When looking at photos of people, I always look into the eyes– the proverbial mirrors of the soul to see if I can glean what is happening behind the eyes. I love old and antique… Continue Reading
I was raised on muddy inland waterways and so consequently deep blue water has a special fascination for me. The Blue Water culture that exists in Nova Scotia I find completely mesmerizing. Deep water, Rocky coasts, Seagoing industries and lots of small towns where the sense of community remains intact. I like nothing better than… Continue Reading
For several years during the late 1990’s and early part of the 2000 decade, I worked with Ford Foundation to provide technical support to African traditional healers they were supporting in West Africa. I made numerous trips to Senegal and to other West African countries that hosted traditional healers with an affiliation with a prime… Continue Reading
In 1990, just weeks after the United States invaded Panama and arrested Manuel Noriega, I was hired by USAID to travel to Panama City and supervise a TV crew that would document the US humanitarian efforts to resettle and house the many people who had been displaced by the destruction caused by the military action.… Continue Reading
Bulgaria shares the outrageous plight of virtually every third world nation I have ever visited: Vast natural resources areas adjacent to abject poverty where the people and culture lack the technology and investment to industrialize. Amazing farmland that had been farmed by centuries and a cultural life unimaginably older than anything you could find comparably… Continue Reading
While touring Zambia a few years ago, I stopped by rural settlement where an entire town has been relocated because their water supply had been contaminated and their land poisoned by acid drainage from nearby Dutch owned copper mining operations. The mining industry in that country has completely contorted the landscape by piling up huge… Continue Reading
Artistic Work
