FACES
Novice
Polar scientists and US Air Force crew inside a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III
Kyrgyz drinking fresh yak yogurt in the Pamir Mountains. (Read my accompanying New York Times story, "At the Crossroads of History")
Extended relatives of Barack Obama react to his 2008 Presidential Election victory
Achuar boys (Read my accompanying New York Times story, "Amazon Awakening")
Valentine's Day
Smoking opium, Thar Desert
Brazilian prostitutes in a lawless, rainforest gold mining settlement
Tava Taupu, from the Marquesas Islands, aboard the voyaging canoe Hokule'a (from "Hawaii's Last Wayfinders", in the March 2011 issue of ISLANDS Magazine)
Sahara International Film Festival, Dakhla Refugee Camp
Ishkashim Market
Novices
The remote Dakhla refugee camp, home to 30,000 displaced Saharawi people, who are embroiled in a protracted conflict with Morocco over Western Sahara. (Read my accompanying story in The New York Times Arts section.)
Inside the cockpit of a US Air Force C-17
An Atlas silk workshop
During Mountain Viper training exercises, Marines simulate war in Afghanistan using hired Afghan role players. (Read my accompanying story, "Theater of War," in Monocle Magazine.)
Mike Olano, Owner of the Winnemucca Hotel, built in 1863 as a boardinghouse and restaurant for Basque migrants. (Read my accompanying New York Times story, "Riding the Rails")
An Achuar shaman along the Pastaza River (Read my accompanying New York Times story, "Amazon Awakening")
Turkana boys
Turkana mother and child
Inauguration Day 2009
Alichur Valley
French-Tahitian with stingray
A Kyrgyz family in the Pamir Mountains. “Having left this place, and traveled three days, always among mountains,” a man “ascends to a district which is said to be the highest in the world,” Marco Polo reported 700 years ago. (Read my accompanying New York Times story, "At the Crossroads of History")
Base jumping off the Sky Tower. ( (Read my accompanying article about Auckland in Business Traveler Magazine.)
Ocean engineer Graham Hawkes, in his revolutionary Super Falcon lightweight submersible. (Read my accompanying story, "The 36,201-ft Deep Man" in National Geographic Adventure Magazine.)
President Barack Obama's extended family celebrates his 2008 election victory (Read my accompanying story in U.S. News and World Report.)
Felt making
Tirio dancers. (Read my accompanying story, "The Shaman Is In," in Utne Magazine.)
Sarah Onyango Obama, step-grandmother of President Barack Obama, at home in Kogelo a week before the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election. (Read my accompanying story, "Dropping In on Obama's Kenyan Grandmother," in Slate.)