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Je suis retourné en Gambie!
My web site is a complete mess so I apologize to tous le monde. So much for being a web designer. I have traveled to the ends of the earth in search of what keeps me alive and that is photography. I have found them and have much work ahead of me to edit and publish the very best on this web site. I also have to go through a mess of words written in a disheveled notebook and write the accounts of my journey. The changing landscapes of Senegal and Mali over the course of thirty-three days were absolutely beautiful.

The journey is very much the adventure. In thirty-three days I had spent one hundred ninety hours in just travel time alone. I had traveled an estimated six thousand kilometers or some thirty eight hundred miles. Three thousand plus photographs were taken and I still want more.

-18/3/2008


Photographs de Mali et Sénégal.

 

The grand exposition of a portrait of West Africa, or the portion that I have traversed, titled "Here No One Drives On Paved Roads" will premier in October 2008 right here on this web site.
Critically Ill: Education in Underdeveloped Nations
Written: Sunday 26 November 2006

BANJUL , THE GAMBIA – I had stepped through the doorway labeled Ward 67 at the Royal Victoria Hospital for the second time. The sight was just the same. Patients lie quietly as they recover from misfortunes in their lives. The only movement came from a nurse who was handing out bread and tea for the morning breakfast. The occasional cool breeze would lift patients closed curtains that had surrounded their beds revealing a moment of lost privacy to the morning staff, as they enter the ward to begin their shift. Soon the ward would become a bustling traffic congestion with doctors, nurses, nursing students, and visitors. [...]

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