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From the Water in Sahel story. I got the Eugene Smith award in 1986 for that story. My first and last award!

The camera felt heavy after one week without getting out there to take some pictures. Really had to drag myself. But at least I got some reward.

The hand painting picture was taken during a story on the Chom Chao garment factory workers.

More on Guatemalan refugees here. And here…

From now on I stop using the title ‘couple’ for these posts with two related pictures taken 15 years apart. I am getting too much spam from people selling wedding rings or/and partners. One from my 1990 one-month-long dream assignment to Vietnam, and the other from the Boeung Kak eviction series.

The visit to Banlung in 1989 was a bit frustrating. We went by helicopter, landed, were guided to the hospital (one patient) for ten minutes, to the school for five minutes and were then invited to a two hour banquet with a roasted piglet at the governor’s house before flying back to Phnom Penh. The […]

The second picture is from my book ‘Peuples d’en Haut‘. The first one? Well I still have to put that Mauritius Island story on my website…