I took this photo during the spring of 1981 in my village, Kyeong Ae Won, South Korea. The village was home to about 125 residents, over 75% of whom had leprosy.
I took this photo during the fall of 1980 in my village, Kyeong Ae Won, South Korea. These three gentlemen were patients and residents of the village. Passing time sitting on the front stoop of a home was a common site.
Mohammed Essabi (center) with me (right) and clients who were traveling from America. This was taken at the home of the rais of Tamesloht, who was Essabi's first patron. This was the first sale of Essabi's work.
This photo was taken while on a 12 km hike to visit the Batak Tribe in the interior of Palawan. The tribal chief invited me to have coffee with him and the tribal dancer invited me to stop and talk with him and his family. This is an unusual...
Two days a week I taught basic English skills to a nomadic group along the waterfront in Roxas, Palawan. They moved whenever they needed a new place to catch fish for sale in the town. Thus, they did not have any formal education. The informal...
This is the tribal dancer for the Batak tribe in the interior of Palawan. On my weekend visit there, he invited me to come and meet his family in their home before I hiked back to civilization. Even though we did not speak each other's language,...
This photo was taken near the end of September, 1998 outside the town of Varshets, Bulgaria. This photo was taken following the first week of school at Ivan Vazov. My students asked me on an impromptu hike to a mountain hut named "White Water"...