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- Vigil
- December 17, 2008
- Photographs from the 2008 Vigil to End Violence against Sex Workers held in Washington Square Park, New York.
- Inflation - Thanksgiving 2008
- November 26, 2008
- Eavesdropping at the balloon inflation the night before Thanksgiving confirms what most children know: parents don't listen.
- Mumbai terrorist attacks
- November 26, 2008
- The news from Mumbai is ugly, but it may get worse still if the attacks trigger inter-ethnic violence.
- Democracy 2K8
- November 4, 2008
- Democracy is coming to the USA; in bite-sized pieces, once every four years.
- November again
- November 2, 2008
- It's November. Do you know where your novel is? More to the point, do I?
- Halloween Parade 2008
- October 31, 2008
- A small selection of photographs taken at the Halloween Parade in New York's West Village, 2008
- What's in a name?
- October 25, 2008
- Your neighborhood bar is the place where people know your name; if we could just get them to remember the bar's name as well, we'd be onto something.
- 2008 Vendy Awards
- October 18, 2008
- Pictures from the 2008 Vendy Awards, a street food event organized by the Streetvendor Project of the Urban Justice Center.
- Lost in translation
- October 17, 2008
- It turns out that my neighbors don't do irony.
- Cross Bones
- October 15, 2008
- The Cross Bones graveyard in London was the burial ground for prostitutes working in the licensed brothels of Southwark.
- Incident on the LES
- October 4, 2008
- A shooting on the Lower East Side brings the police out in force.
- Betelnut Girls
- October 3, 2008
- Annamarie Ho's installation 'Betelnut Girls' has come to Manhattan.
- One Fish Two Fish
- September 27, 2008
- The bluefish are running.
- Notting Hill '08
- August 29, 2008
- Some photographs and observations from London's Notting Hill Carnival.
- Photowalk
- August 23, 2008
- Some pictures from the NYC Chinatown photowalk, part of Scott Kelby's worldwide photowalk.
- Detained in Beijing
- August 20, 2008
- My friend Brian Conley from Alive in Baghdad has been detained in Beijing.
- Precision
- July 26, 2008
- What exactly is precision brow planing, and why would you want it?
- Fourth of July
- July 4, 2008
- What I did on my Fourth of July holiday.
- Olafur
- June 28, 2008
- Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has installed four giant waterfalls in New York
- Mermaid Parade 2008
- June 21, 2008
- Photographs from Coney Island's annual Mermaid Parade.
- Midget
- June 17, 2008
- You see some strange things in New York
- Toy Tower
- May 12, 2008
- The Toy Tower, a ramshackle wooden structure towering over Avenue B on Manhattan's Lower East Side, is due to be taken down.
- Roller Derby
- May 10, 2008
- Pictures from a roller derby bout between the Manhattan Mayhem and the Queens of Pain.
- Study war no more
- April 25, 2008
- Internet startups blip.tv and Pando face off on the paintball field, and everyone gets covered in yellow paint
- Band Rampage
- March 28, 2008
- Photographs from various bands that played New York in the first part of 2008.
- Pomelo
- January 27, 2008
- The softest kitty in the world is no more.
- Mumbai
- January 11, 2008
- A small collection of photographs taken in and around Mumbai.
- Mumbai Rail
- January 10, 2008
- The suburban railway system in Mumbai may be the most complex and heavily loaded in the world.
- Mahalaxmi
- January 10, 2008
- A small set of photographs from Mumbai's open-air laundry at Mahalaxmi Dhobi Ghat.
- Amber
- January 9, 2008
- A small collection of photographs taken at Amber Fort near Jaipur.
- Jaipur
- January 8, 2008
- A selection of photographs from Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
- Sacred cows
- January 6, 2008
- India's roads have everything. Really everything.
- Orccha
- January 3, 2008
- Photographs of the palaces and temples of Orchha in northern Madhya Pradesh
- Tea with the sadhu
- January 2, 2008
- A tea break with the residents of a Hanuman shrine in Khajuraho.
- Khajuraho
- January 1, 2008
- Photographs from Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh.
- Juhu Beach
- December 30, 2007
- Photographs from Juhu Beach, northern Mumbai
- Pakistan from the air
- December 30, 2007
- Pictures of Pakistan from the air.
- "Alive in Baghdad" reporter killed
- December 15, 2007
- Ali Shafeya, a journalist working with my friend Brian, has been killed in his home by the Iraqi National Guard.
- Atmosphere
- December 5, 2007
- Two pictures of unusual atmospheric phenomena - a 'sun pillar' and a 'fallstreak hole'.
- Fire on the Bowery
- November 29, 2007
- Pictures from a fire at a lighting store on the Bowery.
- Picture of an underachiever
- November 14, 2007
- It's November again, and that means it's novel-writing time.
- Halloween
- November 1, 2007
- Some pictures from New York's Halloween Parade.
- Strange days indeed
- October 11, 2007
- Only in Tajikistan can a ride in a shared taxi turn into an industrial spelunking expedition.
- Dushanbe
- October 8, 2007
- A small collection of photographs taken in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
- The Gray Plague
- October 8, 2007
- The police in Dushanbe are everywhere ... and they have too much time on their hands.
- The road back
- October 7, 2007
- A small collection of photographs taken on the Tavildara Road from Khorog to Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
- Pamir Highway
- October 5, 2007
- A small collection of photographs taken on the Pamir Highway east of Khorog, Gorno-Badakshan.
- The view from Bulunkul
- October 5, 2007
- Bulunkul, in the Pamiri desert: dry earth, a handful of houses, no future.
- In the Pamirs
- October 4, 2007
- Photographs taken in the Pamirs, near the Khargush Pass
- Checkpoint
- October 4, 2007
- Chance encounters in the desert.
- Wakhan Valley
- October 3, 2007
- Some pictures taken in the Wakhan Valley, Gorno-Badakshan Autonomous Oblast, Tajikistan
- Bibi Fatima
- October 3, 2007
- A visit to the hot springs of the Wakhan Valley.
- Howo Kush
- October 2, 2007
- Strange things happen on the road to Khorog.
- Tavildara Road
- October 1, 2007
- Taking the old road from Dushanbe to Khorog.
- Photo Exhibition
- September 20, 2007
- Some photographs taken during a recent photography course.
- San Gennaro
- September 16, 2007
- The Feast of San Gennaro comes to Little Italy.
- Relaunched
- September 10, 2007
- Another day, another website makeover.
- Fireworks
- July 4, 2007
- Photographs of the 4th of July firework display seen from the Lower East Side.
- Reverend Billy
- July 1, 2007
- Reverend Billy has reportedly been arrested.
- Sarasota
- June 26, 2007
- A handful of pictures from a trip to Sarasota, FL.
- Birds and the Bees (and Crabs)
- May 31, 2007
- Love is in the air (for wild turkeys and mind-blowingly ancient arthropods).
- (It's a) Burning Car
- May 24, 2007
- A car spontaneously combusts in the street outside.
- Dance Parade 2007
- May 19, 2007
- Dancers vote with their feet (hips, hands and other body parts) to protest New York's archaic cabaret laws.
- Great Saunter 2007
- May 5, 2007
- Here we go round the island again.
- MoDo Madness
- April 30, 2007
- The mourning doves have landed, and the cat is going insane.
- Fire and Police
- April 4, 2007
- High drama - and a touch of farce - on the streets of New York.
- Eclipse
- March 3, 2007
- Some photographs of the March 3rd lunar eclipse.
- Dissenting opinion
- March 1, 2007
- Vandals have taken to defacing anti-authoritarian wall art in my neighborhood.
- Gung hei faat choi
- February 25, 2007
- Photographs from the Chinese New Year parade in Manhattan.
- Snow
- February 15, 2007
- Some photographs from recent snowstorms in Manhattan.
- East London
- January 28, 2007
- A few photographs from East London.
- Britain from above
- January 25, 2007
- Some aerial photographs of mountain scenery in Britain, taken from a commercial flight.
- Power Washer
- January 6, 2007
- Photographs of the power-washing of 188 Suffolk Street, Manhattan
- James Brown
- December 25, 2006
- Some pictures from James Brown's 70th birthday concert in Battery Park.
- Alive in Mexico
- December 5, 2006
- Another friend gets arrested, this time by Mexican police in Oaxaca.
- Rhymes with 'Flymo'
- November 29, 2006
- NaNoWriMo has my soul again
- Erin
- October 30, 2006
- Erin Siegal, Reuters and Indymedia photographer, has been arrested by the NYPD while covering a demonstration.
- Best of breed
- October 29, 2006
- Pictures from the Halloween Dog Parade in Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan
- Roller Derby
- October 14, 2006
- The Bronx Gridlock and the Queens of Pain meet in Manhattan, and I get to take pictures from the ringside.
- Patiwat?
- September 19, 2006
- The Thai military has seized power - again.
- Paraty
- July 24, 2006
- Paraty pushes the envelope in its relentless pursuit of the picturesque.
- Ilha Grande
- July 23, 2006
- Pictures taken on Ilha Grande, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.
- Bonde
- July 19, 2006
- About the bonde, the tram service connecting Rio's Centro district to Santa Teresa.
- Urca
- July 19, 2006
- Photographs taken in Urca, Rio de Janeiro.
- Centro
- July 18, 2006
- Pictures of old colonial houses in Centro, Rio de Janeiro.
- Rio Graffiti
- July 18, 2006
- Some graffiti art from Rio de Janeiro.
- Rio
- July 17, 2006
- Some photographs from Rio de Janeiro.
- To Rio
- July 15, 2006
- Photographs and musings on the way to Rio de Janeiro.
- From the Air
- June 23, 2006
- Some cloudscapes and aerial photographs.
- Paris Graffiti
- June 18, 2006
- Pictures of graffiti from Paris
- Paris
- June 17, 2006
- Photographs taken in Paris
- London
- June 16, 2006
- A small selection of photographs from London
- UNGASS
- May 31, 2006
- Photographs from the UNGASS protests outside the UN Building.
- Feast of St Joey
- May 19, 2006
- The Hungry March Band leads a procession in honor of Joey Ramone.
- Gardens on the march
- May 13, 2006
- A march for community gardens visits the Lower East Side.
- Great Saunter 2006
- May 7, 2006
- The Great Saunter 2006: another thirty-two miles round Manhattan's rim.
- Lost in America
- April 20, 2006
- One thing I like about New York is the chance to see live music.
- Erawan
- March 22, 2006
- The Brahma statue at Bangkok's Erawan Shrine has been smashed by a mentally-ill man.
- Snow
- February 12, 2006
- It's snowing in New York. A lot.
- Global Village Epiphany
- January 31, 2006
- Teatime in the global village.