In 1992, I took a three-month sabbatical and spent most of it wandering through Indonesia. With more than 17,000 islands to choose from, narrowing an itinerary wasn’t easy. But of all the places I visited, the one that captivated me most was Sulawesi. My destination was Toraja, high in the mountains, remote enough that simply getting there felt like an … Read More

I first visited Bangkok in 1990, and it immediately became one of my favorite cities. I’ve returned many times since, watching it reinvent itself. Much has changed since that first visit. There was no mass transit, traffic was legendary, and a tuk-tuk ride that ended up on a major highway left me gasping from exhaust fumes, eyes watering and wondering … Read More

These faces have stayed with me for more than forty years. They came from a market high in Ecuador’s Andes. I shot them in 1984 when I was traveling through the country with rolls of slide film and only a few words of Spanish. The original slides have faded badly over the decades, taking on the reddish cast common to … Read More

In a few weeks I’ll be back in one of my favorite countries, Mexico. First stop: Mexico City. Then it’s off to a spa in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains. With only three days in the city, I’m already deciding how to spend every precious hour. One stop isn’t negotiable: the Museum of Popular Art. Last year I could … Read More