“This is the first food I’ve eaten in four days,” Habiba Mohammad Hassan, a 17 year old Somali tells me as we wedged ourselves into the back of a truck with over 40 other refugees and opens a packet of high energy biscuits. Hassan, and 150 others, just spent the last two days crossing the [...]

I arrived in Yemen yesterday with  contradictory mental ideas of the country. It’s the place where Noah’s Ark was launched and Osama bin Landen’s father was born. It is a country where Westerners are kidnapped by tribesmen but rarely harmed, where suicide bombers struck the USS Cole, where young women dance and chew qat with [...]

I’m back from being on the road for the past month and am still blown away from such an incredible and diverse trip. Starting off the trip getting to spend a week with Linds in Paris was just perfect. Just as us east-coaster’s were ready for spring to arrive, so were the Parisians; we hit [...]

The winning image was shot in January 2008 while covering the Kenyan post-election violence. Using a Nikon D2Xs and a Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8. After spending all day in the displaced camps getting average images with not ideal light, a storm started to move in late and the light started to get interesting. With the fading [...]

I went back to my own hometown area to work on this assignment for BBC North America. It’s always good to get away from the city and connect with good ol folks on the farmland. I have been away for so long I have forgotten too much about my own youth and the way I [...]

I’ve recently finished my 2008 Annual Report, if you could call it that. It’s more of a look at the mundane that goes on in my life over the course of the year. It’s a fun way to look at personal data collection.
You should do it!
CLICK HERE TO SEE ANNUAL REPORT

I am currently in Bangui, Central African Republic through November 21st.
 
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