2023: The Year in Review

Traveling-wise, 2023 was an interesting year for me. It began in late-January with a move to my new country of residence: the Democratic Republic of the Congo. By the end of December, I had taken 66 flights, logging nearly 115,000 miles, spending 276h 57m inside planes. This according to FlghtRadar24.com! But fortunately, traveling in 2023…

The Jewel of West Africa’s Wildlife Parks

· Pendjari National Park: Lions and elephants in the “Land of Magic” ·

Let us start today with a warning:  this post is neither a trip report to the Pendjari Park nor a write-up on it. Rather, it is a compilation of photos from my trips there, the last one of which was in 2018. Quite a lot has happened since then, both in Benin and at the…

Il Est Temps de Decider

· Institut Francais du Benin // Jan 23, 2018 to Feb 10, 2018 ·

In early 2018, the Institut Français du Benin in Cotonou put together an exhibit of some of my travel photography. All in all, it was 25 photos from journeys to places far and wide—Patagonia, the Gulf, the Sahel, Europe, et cetera, et cetera—on a wide variety of modes of transport—cars, motorcycles, trains, container vessels, you…

Land of Magic

· A brief introduction to Benin ·

A few photos from my book “Benin: Land of Magic” (Benin, 2018; currently out of print). I lived in this most beautiful country from 2015 to 2018. One of the things that I found fascinating about it was its diversity. Its cultural diversity, certainly, but also its flora diversity, its fauna diversity, the diversity of…

Looking For Portugal

· A photographic journey through the country ·

From May 2014 to May 2015, I had a set of 19 photos on the subject of “Portugal” exhibited at the Embassy of Portugal in Washington, DC. The exhibit was a part of the “Shortcut to Europe: European Union Embassies’ Open House,” a yearly event at all EU Embassies in the US. Most of the…

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