The naserah (ceremonial site) of the Amelbati Tribe on Malekula, Vanuatu. The naserah was once used for cannibalism by Amelbati adult males. View Full Details
The war-ravaged train station in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Originally an art deco masterpiece, the station was one of the busiest in the country, linking the north with the capital of Colombo via the Yarl Devi service. Civil war inflicted serious damage in the 1980s though, and rail travel past Vavuniya, 140km to the south, has ... View Full Details
A sanni yakuma exoricism ritual in Mirissa, Sri Lanka. The dancer is dressed as Maha Sohona, the bear demon of the cemetery. View Full Details
Santos, a Quechuan speaker from the Peruvian village of Chillca, calls the Nevado Jatunjampa his ‘godfather.’ Because the mountain has three peaks, he figured that was reason enough to get two wives. View Full Details
Alpacas near the Quechuan village of Chillca in the high Andes. The snow-capped mountain is Nevado Jatunjampa, with three peaks. View Full Details
The aptly-named El Dorado River, a tributary of the Amazon near Iquitos, Peru. The green is algae bloom, and disguises a voracious army of piranhas. View Full Details
Kenya is the sort of place where a frantic safari in search of big cats can take a sudden turn, the truck halting outside an indigenous village that was all but invisible only moments before. View Full Details
Deadvlei, near Sossusvlei, on the western side of Namibia. Originally, rainfall caused a clay pan to form and camel thorn trees took root. When drought came, the pan becoming surrounded by massive sand dunes, water dried up and the trees settled down to a slow petrification. Their remains are now thought to be more than 800 ... View Full Details
The evening before Hurricane Irene reached New York on 28 August, 2011, and failed to cause the projected damage, Manhattan was a ghost town. 6th Avenue and W 17th. View Full Details
A kayaking trip in Uyak Bay on Kodiak Island, Alaska, veers slightly off course when the Kodiak bears decide to join in. View Full Details
Boy and his dog on a trajinera (long boat). Xochimilco, Mexico. Exhibited as part of ‘de MéXICO: Photographs by Lance Richardson‘. China Heights Gallery, Surry Hills. August 6-8, 2010. View Full Details
Butcher and severed pig’s head in the Mercado Hildago. Guanajuato, Mexico. Exhibited as part of ‘de MéXICO: Photographs by Lance Richardson‘. China Heights Gallery, Surry Hills. August 6-8, 2010. View Full Details
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