Category: General
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GOLFO DE FONSECA
In November of 1985 and January of 1986, I travelled to Honduras on assignment for the Asociación Hondureña de Ecología. They asked me to document a variety of environmental issues. Most of my original Kodachromes remained with AHE. I’d usually try to shoot a couple of frames of each subject so I got a few of the Kodachromes in the end … but my best pics remained in Honduras. The Golfo de Fonseca is a body of water in the Pacific Ocean, which borders Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador. Its wetland…
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Parque Nacional La Tigra
In November of 1985 and January of 1986, I travelled to Honduras on assignment for the Asociación Hondureña de Ecología. They asked me to document a variety of environmental issues. Parque Nacional La Tigra is Honduras’s first national park. I visited about five years after it was officially created to document its flora and fauna. The park is 25 kms north of Tegucigalpa and is 1,800 and 2,185 metres. I have very little recollection of the visit. I must have spent a couple of days there. I found a photo of…
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AT THE RAILS IN GUAPILES
I was 21 and found myself pressed against the rough timber rails of a makeshift arena in Guápiles, the Caribbean heat clinging to everything. It was August 1981, and I’d wandered into a Tico-style bullfight with no real understanding of what I was about to see—only that the crowd was electric, loud, and unmistakably local. This wasn’t the Spanish corrida I’d imagined from books. No matador, no ritualised death. Instead, young men—farm boys, labourers, thrill-seekers—stepped into the ring with towels and bravado, testing themselves against a nervous, powerful animal. The bull…
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