Jaded-traveler blues – Cairo, Egypt
Done stuff all the past two days … Feeling tired; lousy. Sleeping in a hostel dorm – hopeless! Got woken at 10 P.M. At 2. At 5 by – “ALLAHU AKBAR!” (God is Almighty) – the dawn prayer from a mosque.
Boys – Lagos, Nigeria
Travel Photography: Lagos, Nigeria, 1991 – Boys on steps in a suburb of Lagos.
Niger River Sunset – Mali
A memory of hanging out with locals in a hired, motorized canoe – pirogue – cruising the waterways around the ancient town of Djenne; meantime while drinking hot tea, smoking grass, music playing; taking pics from the water at sunset.
In search of diamonds – Kono, Sierra Leone
I went in search of diamonds, riches, wealth, freedom from this mundane dumb-motherfucker world – and found it …
Faces of West Africa
Portrait collection from 6 months of solo overland travels across West Africa: faces of Togo, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Mali, Ghana, Mauritania, Gambia, Benin, Burkina Fuso …
Dogon country – Mali
Dogon country – Mali
Gold Coast – Ghana
Gold Coast – Ghana
Tengzueg Shrine, Tongo Hills – Ghana
Tengzueg Shrine @ Tongo Hills, Ghana: I visited this area over two days with my local guide Rashid, meeting the King and his son, and later drinking beer and smoking joints in this surreal landscape … where the local people believe in the spirit world and offer chicken sacrifices in a sacred cave in the rocks above the village …
Christmas in Lalibela, Ethiopia
They remain one the least recognized man-made wonders of the world, yet once the Medieval rock-hewn churches of Lalibela were known as “The Jerusalem of Ethiopia”.
Tamberma Valley, Togo
Photos – Togo: With walls built of wet clay and straw – that sets hard as concrete – these 17th century fortified houses in the Tamberma Valley were built to defend against slave-hunting raiders …
