Chapter Seven. Photographing Culture

“How do cultures differ from one another? Above all in their customs. Tell me how you dress, how you act, what are your habits, which gods you honor—and I will tell you who you are. Man not only creates culture, he inhabits it, he carries it around with him—man is culture.”

—Ryszard Kapuscinski, Travels with Herodotus

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Canon 5D, 100mm, 1/1000 @ f/2.8, ISO 200

Cairo, Egypt.

I never had a chance. I was born to military parents and started traveling months after I was born. I spent my early years in Germany, seeing Europe on weekends while burning my legs on the hot black seats in the back of our yellow Volvo. ...

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