As a school we walked to this widow's house to give her a live pig, bags of rice, bags of fruit, and our money donation (from the faculty). The widow was the wife of a respected member of the school board. She in return gave all the visitors a...
Pablo, an Argentinian biologist, took this photo of me as we were wading across La Laguna de Pozuelos in northern Jujuy in 1993. We were on a flamingo collecting trip to study the diets of three different species of flamingos.
Between my friend Lyuba's wedding ceremony and the wedding reception we drove a few miles out into the steppe surrounding the city of Karaganda and tied a red ribbon to a pole. The red ribbon symbolizes anger and unpleasantness, which the newlyweds...
1991-1993.
Papua New Guinea (PNG), Fergusson Island, Salamo.
On airstrip next to the river...
Angie Harris and Rev. Ataline Fred enjoying an afternoon atop our yam house at the garden.
Teaching art in Ghana was not without challenges. A tin roof in the rainy season made lecturing really difficult. Thankfully art is a hands on subject.
This photo shows an artificial island in Lau Lagoon, Malaita, Solomon Islands. The 'Asi' built artificial islands primarily for safety by piling rocks and coral in tidal lagoons and constructing leaf and stick houses. They were skilled fisherman...
I took this photo during a baptism in 1992 in Karang, Senegal. The infant is seven days old and the village elder is whispering the infant's name into his ear three times, per the baptism ritual.