“C’est interdit,” declares the clearly bored and substantially overweight guard as she slithers up to me in front of Simba Plaza. This architectural equivalent of a cold sore is the latest skyscraper to afflict downtown Kigali. It stands, pointless and grotesque, overlooking a mess of parking spaces and wasted opportunities. I assume the Uniformed One…
Category: Photography
I still can’t deal with the notion of having servants. In addition to obsessively cleaning our car every morning, our wonderful guard, John, will pounce and clean the occasional pair of shoes left outside. Oh, he’ll also clean my mountain bike after a muddy ride unless I specifically tell him to please leave the patina…
Sometimes, photography is a bit like I imagine fishing: it’s the shot you didn’t get or couldn’t take for whatever reason that sticks with you more than the ones that successfully clicked. Part disappointment, part the thought of what could have been. Earlier this week I was working on a story at the referral hospital…
Another week in Kigali, another Sunday spent on the mountain with good company and horses… ah, but I repeat myself. Lea rides at “Fazenda Sengha” the only real “stable” in all of Rwanda. Until recently, they were down to two horses (one, really — Licky is ancient and worn out, and should be allowed to…
Nonsense. This is Rwanda — every season is busy season. But still, with the return of the rains, there’s a renewed push to prepare the fields for a second harvest. it seems ridiculous that there’s still subsistence farming going on right here in Kigali, but the pace of development is such that new neighborhoods are…
The “small” rainy season in this neck of the woods started on Saturday. Suddenly, it became quite apparent why the main roads have massive four foot deep culverts on the side. It’ll help green up the place, but it also had the novel side effect of emptying the streets of people, which is almost unheard…
This little guy probably lives somewhere down the alley that runs alongside our house up here in Kinyinya.
It should be hard to be blue with a sunrise like this, but today was a bit of a challenge. I’m still trying — and failing — to “get” the charm of Kigali. In my (probably unreasonable and, thus, unwanted) opinion, there’s precious little of it around. By the international “big smelly African citiy” standard,…
Just a quick picture for now. We had dinner at a bizarre restaurant on the shore of Lake Kivu this evening — reportedly one of the best in town (not saying much), it was hiding in the pitch black darkness at the end of a dirt road down a driveway that could only barely be…
Spent a few hours shooting one of the hardest working and inspiring guys I’ve seen in a long, long time. Ali Syed, the pharmacist at CVS in West Lebanon, NH, is one of the winner’s of this year’s Paragon Award for all-around best CVS pharmacist anywhere. His competence and incredible attention to detail and courtesy to…
