Bisrate Gabriel buzzes with excitement as children half dressed in white robes hurry from doorway-to-doorway, golden tassels and red ropes swinging as they go. Church elders pace slowly across open courtyards, looking as wise as they are noble embellished in equally...
The bustling cattle markets once sprawled across Xinjiang are slowly vanishing, the promise of a glistening international future fuelling the rapid consumption of valuable city-limit land. Hordes of bright-yellow gas-guzzling behemoths crawl over sun-bleached...
It's easy to forget that most of the internet and printed literature only ever really show us the best of the best, often hiding our learning and mistakes to the public. A Dawn Chorus was eventually captured from the living room balcony in our appartment in Addis. I...
It’s far too early on a Saturday morning to be thinking of anything sensible, so early in fact that the sun isn't up yet. Dinner seems an eternity away. We leave in a hire car, our driver smoothly navigating the waking roads of Addis with ease. We pass through the...
I first met Katerina in central Vienna. We shared stories over a coffee or two in a pokey coffee haus just off the Graben and soon started working together, shooting whatever and whenever our schedules would allow. Katerina Joumana has been a staple of the oriental...
Travelling silently through the southern Ethiopian lowlands our Landcruiser grinds to a momentous halt, tires raking through loose earth as the metal frame narrowly avoids dusty children and curb-side market stalls. Chickens squark and flap as my Nikons crash into a...
As midnight chimes on an icy rooftop overlooking Meijiang Nan, seemingly every firework in the entire world goes off in unison. Rockets rocket skyward, a trillion fire trails lifting from earth’s surface heading for the heavens. They erupt in a dark sky set on fire...
A scent of oak filters through the morning streams of sunlight, wisps of white wood smoke twirling and dancing to the heart-beat of another day in Kep’s busy crab shacks. Not particularly interested in joining in the morning dance, I opt to sit as far away from the...
The Gelada baboon exists exclusively across parts of the northern Ethiopian Highlands, living in unison with nature, tourism and, increasingly, urbanisation. Tracking the primates across the Ethiopian Great Rift Valley is not always an easy task, but with a local...
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