This Sunday’s New York Times will feature a photo of my dad that I shot when we were together in Jordan. We had such a good trip and it makes it that much better to have it shown in the NY Times travel section.
Click here to see the NY Times ‘Why We Travel’ slide show.

I spend quite a bit of time inside the photo management software, Lightroom, sorting through tens of thousands of images, organizing them, tagging, uploading, editing, you name it, and I often I find my self coming across an image that seems to really catch my attention for whatever reason.
When editing in the field and under [...]

I was asked again to contribute to World Policy Journal’s summer issue. In it will be my reportage from Yemen. Also, if you haven’t seen my cleaned-up blog posts head over to the WPJ blog to check them out!
Micah Albert: Quenching Yemen’s Thirst
Micah Albert: Reporter’s Notebook — The First Taste of Yemen

Some of my coverage of Yemen is in today’s BBC Middle East News. Click here to see it.

I’m spending my last evening in Yemen on the roof of my hotel overlooking the ancient city of Tiaz, enjoying the salty breeze from the Red Sea, and listening to the call to prayer as it is echoes across the city. Sitting here, as twilight approaches and bathes the city in a gorgeous warm light, [...]

Venturing deeper into the volatile seas off the coast of Yemen towards Somalia and Djibouti, fishermen like Abdalla Abrahem must spend more time and travel further into these troubled waters to find fish and support his family. Earning at best $10 a day, Abrahem and the rest of the people in the small village of [...]

At first I thought there was some sort of continuing problem in Yemen where many men had extremely large growths sticking out from their cheek. So abnormally large they are, if it were on both checks it would it would look cartoonishly exaggerated, like a squirrel.
I knew what qat was well before coming to Yemen, [...]