Return to Sierra Leone
March 24, 2010 in Also posted in Africa, Multimedia, Nikon, conflict, photography, travelI am leaving tomorrow to Freetown, Sierra Leone filled with feelings of anxiety as well as hope. The last time I was there was just a few months after the brutal civil war ended in 2002 that claimed tens of thousands of lives and left more than a third of its population displaced. Yet it is the unspeakable atrocities that are so haunting. I remember back in 1999, Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora, a friend and extremely committed journalist, who was later killed covering the conflict, told me stories ... Read More
Israel/Palestine
September 2, 2009 in Also posted in Israel, Palestine, conflict, photographyA young teenage Palestinian couple defy a curfew and dance together during their wedding ceremony in the West Bank city of Nablus. A British non-governmental agency recently reported that Palestinians are currently living in a state of extreme, worsening poverty and fear for their future. Almost three-quarters of Palestinians now live on less than US$2 a day, below the United Nations poverty ... Read More
