The boy in the picture is celebrating the fire festival in a village surrounding Tamale, the Northern Regional capital of Ghana. The fire festival (Bugum) is observed by Muslims here to mark the landing of prophet Noah's Ark after the flood. It is...
Viorel Sandu, a godfather, listens to a Romanian priest during a wedding ceremony inside a church in Barlad, Vaslui, in Romania on Aug. 23, 2009. Next to Sandu are (from right to left) the groom, bride and his wife.
This is Tamai, one of the older ladies in my village. Saramaccan women work very hard harvesting, cutting, and beating rice, the primary food in a Saramaccan diet. Even women Tamai's age can put an able-bodied Peace Corps volunteer in his...
A view of my village from the top of our newly constructed water tower. This is a neighborhood called Baka Dja-- my house is just out of frame. I had a zinc roof instead of thatch, which kept snakes out but was ridiculously hot during the day.