This picture was only the beginning of a long day of mishaps during a field mission in Nord Ubangi, an equatorial region on the northern border of DRC. This day started at 6 am, as most days do when living la vida village. We were told by some colleagues that they found a truck to take …
Father and Son was the first song I ever learned on guitar. I was 15 years old and my father bought me a guitar for Christmas. I wasn’t really into it because what I really wanted was a surfboard. I know, what a spoiled freakin brat. So I let it gather dust and continued to sweat …
If ever there was a photo that captured the essence and aura of Antonio, this would be the one. Grunge and light beams, motos and graffiti, sunshine and grit. That’s my man. I took this photo of him while we were enjoying sundowners and camera tricks at a little sidewalk cafe in Hanoi. I focused on …
This is one of my all-time favorite photos of Antonio and his best friend, Jim, at the opening of ASSP’s first health center, Mamu Wetu. This health center was special because Antonio got to build much of it with his own hands. Jim was his logistician throughout the building of this and many others in …
Because I do. This is one of my favorite photos of Antonio. It was shot during one of those rare moments that took myself and my camera into the hear of Kinshasa, Limité. We were checking out a solar installation that a colleague did in a maternity hospital. On the way back to our vehicle (which couldn’t …
That’s what I called them after spending two weeks in the bush with these two, watching their excitement gush all over each other every time we installed a new site for the next health center. This is a picture of Antonio, the Architect, and Evan, the Construction coordinator, goofing off on top of a termite …