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<p>Two well-armed national police officers patrol the streets of Tame, passing sun-beaten election murals for the then-mayor.</p>

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PHOTOS

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


<p>Low-hanging branches and leaves form a quiet chamber in the St.-Elisabeth-Kirchhof, a cemetery in Berlin. </p>
<p>The biggest party on earth, Rio de Janeiro's Carnaval converts the sprawling city into a festival of samba, smiles, and surreal spectacle for several days. So Bacchic are the festivities, it's hard to fathom that the Carnaval is rooted in Christian tradition. Here, thousands of revelers watch the famed samba schools in their endless and enormous procession through the purpose-built Sambódromo.<br /></p>
<p>A woman enjoys a moment of calm in the waters off Montevideo.<br /></p>
<p>Emerging into the light outside the Kremlin.</p>
<p>An old man drags timber back toward his village at the foot of the Balkan Mountains. <br /></p>
<p>Storm clouds arrive at la Santísima Trinidad de Paraná, one of the Jesuit <em>reducciónes</em> (missionary colonies) built in this region during the 17th and 18th Centuries. They fell into ruin when the Jesuits were expelled by Spain in 1767. </p>
<p>Remnants of a former bakery in Berlin.</p>
<p>A person out for a night stroll in Manhattan.</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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Not this time, either, FIFA

On boycotting another World Cup.
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The Ambiguous Nature of “Collaboration” in Colombia

Most Colombians have done something that might result in them being labeled a collaborator or sympathizer by one of Colombia’s armed groups.
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Contested Country: An Examination of Current Propaganda Techniques in the Colombian Civil War

In recent years the Colombian state and security forces have deployed the most elaborate propaganda campaigns in the rural sector.