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Eric Fichtl
<p>Trees peek through the mist in Val di Funes – a great welcome for a day of hiking!<br /></p>

Thanks for visiting. This website features my photography, writing, and a bit about me.

PHOTOS

Here is a random sample of my photos. Visit my galleries for many more.


<p>Two giraffes browsing for a meal. They're considered 'browsers' as they eat leaves, rather than grazing on grasses.</p>
<p>Scenery along a trail toward Crusc and other peaks in the Dolomites.</p>
<p>In a rural Salvadoran cooperative, community members march under a banner of the slain Archbishop Oscar Romero, who dared to suggest that peasants like these might deserve an earthly bounty in addition to promises of posthumous salvation. For this heresy, he was assassinated by death squads linked to the Salvadoran establishment – a fate that awaited many of his flock.</p>
<p>Guangzhou's Canton Tower (formerly the self-defining TV Astronomical and Sightseeing Tower) is a twisting geometric latticework that climbs to a frightening 462 metres. Designed by Mark Hemel and Barbara Kuit, it topped out in 2011 and lights up in a swirling rainbow of colours every night.</p>
<p>Passengers descending into and ascending out of one of Moscow's very deep metro stations.</p>
<p>A woman waits at a level crossing in Buenos Aires.</p>
<p>Two jackals go from 'conversation' to chasing each other in an instant.</p>
<p>A man thinks while drinking pulque, a traditional Mesoamerican indigenous drink made from the maguey plant.</p>
TEXTS

A lot of what I write professionally carries no byline. Here are some of the works I have put my name to.

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Araucan Nightmare: Life and Death in Tame

An intimate portrait of a small town at war in Colombia's east.
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On Robert Skidelsky's 'Keynes: The Return of the Master'

Skidelsky offers an accessible introduction to the work of John Maynard Keynes
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The Massacre at Betoyes

An armed group attacked the indigenous Guahibo community at Betoyes. Who was it?