dressmaker

My favorite dressmaker.

(6 April 2010)

cats in bars

A cat. In a bar. In Istanbul.

(5 April 2010)

hopscotch!

A young boy waits for a neighbor to attatch a basket of bread to a rope he dangles from his second story balcony. This is a common tradition in Turkey.

I hopscotched with several local girls as their mothers watch, amused, from a second-story window.

(1 April 2010)

discarded

Istanbul, Turkey

(31 March 2010)

sunset on the water

The sun sets over the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey.

(30 March 2010)

laugh

A man laughs in a small village on the coast of India.

(1 April 2009)

clean water

A young boy is fascinated with the clean water from the new wells.

Baptist Global Response funded four 10,000-litre tanks that provide water for more than 4,000 people. The closer water allows women time for other activities, such as childcare, education and productive work.

(16 December 2009)

hey bay-bay

A mother with her newborn baby in an slum in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

(21 July 2008)

not what my hands have done

A woman turns away, tears in her eyes, as she watches a man flogging himself to the point of blood.

The man practices asceticism–reenacting the flogging of Christ, during the festival of Kidane Meheret. Tens of thousands Ethiopian Orthodox  gathered for the festival. Kidane Meheret, which means Covenant of Mercy, is an Orthodox festival honoring the Virgin Mary.

(22 August 2008)

happy birthday, sammy jo!

my beautiful baby sister turns 19 today. i love you very, very much, sam.

(these photos are from her graduation, may 2009)