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HIV test

2006-04-09T12:33:00.000Z

HIV test

HIV test result in hand. At an HIV/Aids clinic in Lilongwe, Malawi

Man from Malawi, Africa

2006-04-09T12:32:00.001Z

Man from Malawi, Africa

2006-04-09T12:32:00.000Z

Portrait of hope, Lilongwe

2006-04-09T12:31:00.001Z

Portrait of hope, Lilongwe

This young mother is attending a self-help centre for people with HIV/AIds, in Lilongwe, Malawi, where the group gives counselling, testing, education on diet and meets daily to help out with each others needs. They have a communal kitchen. Noone at the centre has enough money for ARVs. See her close up here.

young woman Malawi

2006-04-09T12:31:00.000Z

young woman Malawi

young man in Malawi

2006-04-09T12:30:00.002Z

young man in Malawi

Love in a time of HIV

2006-04-09T12:30:00.001Z

Love in a time of HIV

In an HIV clinic in Lilongwe, Malawi, this couple asked to have their photo taken. People at this clinic cannot afford ARVs.

young mother with child on back

2006-04-09T12:30:00.000Z

young mother with child on back

This young mother and her child are attending a self-help centre for people with HIV/AIds, in Lilongwe, Malawi, where the group gives counselling, testing, education on diet and meets daily to help out with each others needs. They have a communal kitchen. Noone at the centre has enough money for ARVs.

portrait of HIV

2006-04-09T12:29:00.003Z

portrait of HIV

friends

2006-04-09T12:29:00.002Z

friends

portrait of a father in Malawi

2006-04-09T12:29:00.001Z

portrait of a father in Malawi

HIV/Aids in Malawi

2006-04-09T12:29:00.000Z

HIV/Aids in Malawi

teacher

2006-04-09T12:28:00.001Z

teacher

Margaret, a mother and teacher, is attending a self-help centre for people with HIV/AIds, in Lilongwe, Malawi, where the group gives counselling, testing, education on diet and meets daily to help out with each others needs. They have a communal kitchen. Noone at the centre has enough money for ARVs.

Positive beauty

2006-04-09T12:28:00.000Z

Positive beauty

An HIV positive african beauty. This young woman was bursting with fun and life.

boy in the sugar mill at Río Sapo

2006-04-05T17:15:00.000Z

boy in the sugar mill at Río Sapo

A boy in the sugar mill at Río Sapo, he has a rope for the bulls that turn the mill and behind him you can see a cart with simple wooden wheels. The artesanal method for producing raw sugar is gradually disappearing as sugar is produced more in large industrial mills called 'ingenios'. There are still small-scale producers dotted around Central America using technology that hasn't changed for hundreds of years.

Bagasso

2006-04-05T17:13:00.000Z

Bagasso

bagasso, crushed sugar cane, is piled up to be used for animal feed. El Salvador.

wrapping sugar

2006-04-05T17:12:00.001Z

wrapping sugar

wrapping raw sugar, or dulce de panela, in corn husks. El Salvador

dulce de panela envuelto

2006-04-05T17:12:00.000Z

dulce de panela envuelto

wrapped raw sugar

Corn husks

2006-04-05T17:11:00.000Z

Corn husks

tusa, or corn husks for wrapping raw sugar

Boy in the sugar mill

2006-04-05T17:10:00.001Z

Boy in the sugar mill

Near Río Sapo, Arambala, El Salvador. The boiler is covered in 'tile' or fine soot

dulce de panela

2006-04-05T17:10:00.000Z

dulce de panela

sugar straight out of the wooden moulds. El Salvador.

Testing the puzunga, El Salvador

2006-04-05T17:09:00.000Z

testing the puzunga

Puzunga is the nutritious green froth that comes off the boiling sugar juice. You can't get puzunga anywhere in the world except a sugar mill. You can scoop a bit out with a strip of bagasso, crushed cane, that's what this man is doing.

Boiling sugar, El Salvador

2006-04-05T17:07:00.000Z

boiling sugar

pouring boiling sugar from one couldron into another as it reaches a certain viscosity

el trapiche, the sugar mill

2006-04-05T17:06:00.000Z

el trapiche

A Trapiche, or sugar mill, near Villa Guadalupe on the Panamerican highway in El Salvador

Raw sugar cane

2006-04-05T17:05:00.000Z

Caña de azucar

Delivery man, San Salvador

2006-04-02T14:11:00.000Z

Delivery man, San Salvador

The delivery man waits for the papers to come off the press. The Diario Co-Latino is the only independent newspaper in El Salvador and has survived two attempts by arson to close it down.

Pick up line, El Salvador

2006-04-02T14:10:00.000Z

recogiendo periodicos

A worker collects the Co-Latino fresh off the cutter and folder. Employees at the Co-Latino receive lower wages than their counterparts in other newspapers, a measure of their committment to a free and independent press in El Salvador.

Hot off the press, El Salvador

2006-04-02T14:09:00.000Z

salen

Workers manually stack newspapers as freshly printed paper runs into the cutter and folder. The Co-Latino press is one of the oldest operating newspaper presses in the world.

Colour rollers, El Salvador

2006-04-02T14:07:00.000Z

tintas

The huge printing press has been refurbished after each deliberate attempt to silence the press. It also undergoes regular ingenious adjustments. Each module on the press was designed to print one ink only, here you can see a creative adjustment by the engineers allow red and yellow inks to be printed together as part of a full colour process. The floor supervisor checks a paper coming off the press in the background.

the biggest camera in the world, El Salvador

2006-04-02T14:04:00.000Z

the biggest camera in the world

Calibrating the huge camera for photography of the layed-out newspaper

Camera-ready, El Salvador

2006-04-02T14:03:00.000Z

alistando trabajo para camera

Bringing camera-ready work towards the camera at the Diario Co-Latino, San Salvador. The operator wears a mask in the camera area because of the toxic chemicals used in the developing of the film from the camera.

Light table, El Salvador

2006-04-02T14:01:00.000Z

mesa de luz

Working on the light table for layout of the Co-Latino newspaper, a co-operative and independent newspaper that has been burned down twice.

Carnival, Brazil

2006-03-31T09:10:00.000Z

carnaval

Or Carnaval, Brasil

Guarani girls, Brazil

2006-03-31T09:09:00.000Z

Guarani girls, Brazil

A friend of mine (Igor) points out that putting yourself in an inferior position to your subject, apart from being an interesting angle, shows respect for the subject, it gives them a certain dignity, I think you can see that in this picture.

hurray!

2006-03-31T09:08:00.002Z

hurray!

President Lula, we love him! Porto Alegre, Brazil

Rabble rousing, Brazil

2006-03-31T09:08:00.001Z

Rabble rousing, Brazil

President Lula's arrival at the PUCRS in Porto Alegre, Brazil

Cleaners, Brazil

2006-03-31T09:08:00.000Z

Cleaners

Ready to mop

Dancers from the Cook Islands, Brazil

2006-03-31T09:07:00.000Z

Dancers, Cook Islands

This girl was in a permanent state of amusement

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and Desmond Tutu, Brazil

2006-03-31T09:06:00.000Z

Esquivel and Tutu

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, both Nobel peace prize winners, leading a peace march in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Every bell in every Church in the city rang together for one minute to start the march.

Carrying Jesus, Brazil

2006-03-31T09:04:00.000Z

Carrying Jesus

Daniel Pereira Santos, Brazil

2006-03-31T09:03:00.000Z

Daniel Pereira Santos

Daniel Pereira Santos, Brazilian film-maker and activist, showing one of his recently televised documentaries on disability. The films he showed on this day were particularly sensitive, heartfelt and moving. They were also very effective films in changing attitudes. He'd put together such a wonderful cast of other disabled people to appear in the films, they were terrific! If ever there was an argument for DIY media, participatory film-making, Daniel made it clearly.

African dancers

2006-03-30T07:05:00.000Z

African dancers

Dancers in Cape Town's Media Works. Taken with a Nikon D100.

Condoms on air, South Africa

2006-03-30T07:04:00.001Z

condoms on air

A radio presenter at Radio Zibonele, brandishing condoms while talking about sex and HIV and Aids. Khayelitsha township, Cape Town, South Africa. Taken with a Nikon D100.

Traditional face paint in South Africa

2006-03-30T07:04:00.000Z

face paint in south africa

Taken with a Nikon D100

Young majorette

2006-03-30T07:03:00.000Z

young majorette

Majorette in Cape Town, South Africa. Taken with a Nikon D100

Light table, South Africa

2006-03-30T07:02:00.000Z

light table

A student of photography at the light table in Media Works Cape Town. Taken with a D100.

Young prisoners, South Africa

2006-03-30T07:01:00.001Z

Young prisoners, South Africa

Prison in South Africa, near Cape Town. Young prisoners paint a banner for International Aids day. Taken with a Nikon D100.

South African Prisoner

2006-03-30T07:01:00.000Z

South African Prisoner

Tattoos of a convict in prison, Cape Town. Taken with a Nikon D100.

"Crime kid", South Africa

2006-03-30T07:00:00.000Z

crime kid

This young prisoner's tattoo says "crime kid". Taken in a prison in South Africa. One of the conditions of the visit to the prison was that I couldn't take a photograph of anyone's face. Taken with a Nikon D100.

Bright eyes, Cuba

2006-03-29T07:57:00.000Z

bright eyes

A Cuban mulatica in Havana with really startling eyes. Taken with a Nikon D100, and a 17-35mm lens.

Old red car, Havana, Cuba

2006-03-29T07:56:00.001Z

old red car

Okay, okay, a corny shot. Taken with a Nikon D100 and a 17-35mm lens.

Tusi laughing, Havana, Cuba

2006-03-29T07:56:00.000Z

Tusi laughing, Havana

Taken with a Nikon D100 and a 17-35mm lens

Hurricane Wilma, Havana, Cuba

2006-03-29T07:55:00.000Z

Hurricane Wilma, Havana, Cuba

The caribbean sea pushing into Miramar, Havana, during Hurrican Wilma. A guy on a bike escapes the water. Taken with a Nikon D100.

Flood from hurricane Wilma, Havana, Cuba

2006-03-29T07:54:00.000Z

havana flood

people sitting outside their houses, quite relaxed, waiting for the flood waters to subside. Taken with a Nikon D100

You might as well jump, Cuba

2006-03-29T07:53:00.001Z

you might as well jump

A boy in Matanzas, Cuba, jumping in the air. Photograph taken with a Nikon D100

Man with a sausage dog, Cuba

2006-03-29T07:53:00.000Z

man with a sausage

A man in Havana looking through the bars of his window. Taken with A Nikon D100.

Laughter, Cuba

2006-03-29T07:52:00.001Z

laughter

Girl on the street in Havana laughing. Photograph taken with a Nikon D100

Flooded street in Old Havana, Cuba

2006-03-29T07:52:00.000Z

flooded street in Old Havana

Hurricane Wilma filled up the old city of Havana with sea water. Taken with A Nikon D100.

Tattoos, El Salvador

2006-03-27T08:32:00.000Z

Tattoos

Gang members are tattooed with blue or black ink only. These are signs of membership of the gang. Taken with a Nikon D100, and a 17-35mm lens

Eighteen, El Salvador

2006-03-27T08:31:00.001Z

eighteen

dieciocho! Photograph taken with a Nikon D100

Gang tattoos, El Salvador

2006-03-27T08:31:00.000Z

tattoos

"Perdóname mamá por mi vida loca"
"Forgive me mother for my crazy life". Photograph taken with a Nikon D100

At the corner, El Salvador

2006-03-27T08:30:00.000Z

local salespeople

San Ramon, Soyapango, San Salvador. Photograph taken with a Nikon D100

Crack, El Salvador

2006-03-27T08:29:00.000Z

Fumando

Gang member smoking crack. Photograph taken with a Nikon D100

Crouching Tiger, Hidden ping pong ball. China

2006-03-25T09:20:00.000Z

Crouching Tiger, Hidden ping pong ball

Buddhist monks playing table tennis in a monastery in Chengdu. They are using a pingpong ball that is the same colour as the robes of the monk on the left and its trajectory makes an arch over to the right, the same as the elegant table legs. Photograph taken with a Nikon D100

Mah Jong Baby, China

2006-03-25T09:19:00.001Z

Mah Jong Baby

A baby looks at the camera while her family plays MahJong outside a bar, near Xin Lin, Chengdu, China. Photograph taken with a Nikon D100

He's got the goat. China

2006-03-25T09:19:00.000Z

He's got the goat

A butcher stands over a goat he has just killed, near Xin Lin, Chengdu, China. Photograph taken with a Nikon D100

Cook, China

2006-03-25T09:18:00.003Z

Cook

A cook outside his kitchen at Huang Long Xi, near Chengdu. Photograph taken with a Nikon D100

Snakebite, China

2006-03-25T09:18:00.002Z

Snakebite

A variety of chinese drinks are displayed at a rural bar, the one in the centre has a snake in it. Photograph taken with a Nikon D100

Carrying a big vase, Chengdu, China

2006-03-25T09:18:00.001Z

Carrying a big vase, Chengdu

At a Buddhist monastery in Chengdu workers move a vase, incense is burning behind them. Photograph taken with a Nikon D100

chinese girl laughing

2006-03-25T09:17:00.001Z

chinese girl laughing

Photograph taken with a Nikon D100

Great wall of china

2006-03-25T09:17:00.000Z

great wall of china

okay, okay, its a bit corny. Photograph taken with a Nikon D100

Boys in Las Guanabanas, Dominican Republic

2006-03-24T21:34:00.002Z

Boys in Las Guanabanas

Boys in Las Guanabanas, near Azua, Dominican Republic. Photo taken with a Nikon F301

Jesus and his aunties, Dominican Republic

2006-03-24T21:34:00.001Z

Jesus and his aunties

This lovely man, Jesus, asked me to go to his house, quite a walk to the edge of a small village, Las Guanabanas, between Azua and San Juan de la Maguana in the Dominican Repúblic. He wanted me to take a photo of him with his aunties, because they mightn't live very long and he wanted something to remember them by. Photo taken with a Nikon F301

Altar, near San Juan de la Maguana, Dominican Republic

2006-03-24T21:34:00.000Z

Altar, near San Juan de la Maguana

My next door neighbour had an altar for her saints, many houses have this. The 'religión popular' in the DR is like Voudou in Haiti. A detail that is lost on most people is that the roof is made with microconcrete tiles, which were my speciality at the time.

Saint, Dominican Republic

2006-03-24T21:33:00.001Z

Saint

"Take a photo of me with my saint" the lady on the right said, and her daughter joined her for the event. While I was in this village, for several weeks, I was invited to a toque de palo, and a tercio. A toque de palo is a non-stop 24 hour session of singing and dancing, as a religious offering for a particular purpose such as someone's health, or for someone to do well in business. A tercio, or a third, is eight hours of the same. Approaching the places where they were held, in rural darkness, the first thing I noticed was the drumming, which I could hear from a distance. Getting closer there were people lining the hedgerows up to the house, young people kissing, smoking cigarettes, drinking rum. In the house there was a choir, singing prayers and outside there was a fire, and drummers, with several people dancing. Older people smoked cigars. It was important, I was told, that the singing, dancing and drumming should not stop for the entire period of the event. In the morning a pig was killed for the toque de palo, and a chicken for the tercio - being less important. Not so much as sacrifices, but to eat because after dancing all night everyone was pretty hungry. The belief in toque de palo, and the altars and saints that people keep in their houses, underpinned the way things happened in the village, it determined many decisions that were taken. Photo taken with a Nikon F301

Coronel Camaaño, Azua, Dominican Republic

2006-03-24T21:33:00.000Z

Coronel Camaaño, Azua

A man holds up a picture of the patriot and guerilla Coronel Francisco Caamaño, a national hero in the Dominican Republic. In some ways he would have been the equivalent of Fidel Castro, but was killed. Lots of Dominicanos have a picture of him in their house.

Photo taken with a Nikon F301

Manuel and the giant peach, Honduras

2006-03-23T13:09:00.001Z

Manuelito with his melocotón

Manuelito, indigenous leader, with a native melocotón or peach. He is making a rude joke about it. Photo taken with Nikon F301

Rolando, Maya Chorti indigenous, Honduras

2006-03-23T13:08:00.000Z

Maya Chortí

A Chortí indian in Carrizalito. Shortly before I took this photo the indigenous leader from this village, Candido Amador Recinos, was beaten to death and scalped.

Photo taken with Nikon F90XPro

Participatory planning, PRA, Honduras

2006-03-23T13:06:00.001Z

participatory planning, PRA

Resource mapping as part of a Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) or planning exercise with Maya Chortí indigenous people near Copán Ruinas, Honduras

Photo taken with a Nikon F301

Maya Chortí girl, Honduras

2006-03-23T13:05:00.000Z

indigenous Maya Chortí girl

De-graining maize. The grain is then boiled with lime, put through a hand-mill and then hand ground on a stone to make the dough for tortillas. The dough is formed into flat circles and cooked on a comal.

Photo taken with a Nikon F90X Pro

Indigenous family at their doorway, Honduras

2006-03-23T13:04:00.000Z

mayan indians outside their hut

Photo taken with Nikon F301

In the hammock, Honduras

2006-03-23T13:03:00.001Z

Manuelito in his hammock

Phopto taken with Nikon F301

Taking our land back, Honduras

2006-03-23T13:03:00.000Z

land and life

Barbasquiadero, near Copán Ruinas, Honduras. On this tense and momentous day the indigenous villagers, after years of misery and attacks, decided to take back land that was taken from them, turning it over with hand hoes to farm it. Their ownership of the land is now being legalised, but after years of struggle and advocacy, and suffering great indignity, violence and loss of life. The improved nutrition that came with having land to farm and produce food from, has reduced infant mortality from 50% (CARITAS figures) to around 5%. Here's an article I wrote about it.

Photo taken with Nikon F301

Hoes, Honduras

2006-03-23T13:01:00.000Z

Indigenous men using hoes to break land left to pasture for years, made hard by cattle's weight.

Photo taken with Nikon F301

In the goat shed, Honduras

2006-03-23T13:00:00.001Z

young Mayan girls in the goat shed

Young Mayan girls in the goat shed

Photo taken with Nikon F301

Sisters in Estanzuelas, Honduras

2006-03-23T12:59:00.000Z

Sisters in Estanzuelas

Maya Chortí sisters, Estanzuelas, near Guatemalan border, Honduras

Photo taken with Nikon F90X Pro

Maya Chortí girl, Honduras

2006-03-23T12:56:00.000Z

Niña indigena

Young Maya Chortí girl's face.

Photo taken with Nikon F90X Pro