Trip to another world
I used to do some skateboarding back when I was in my early teens. I never got to do any crazy tricks and my love affair with the board lasted less than a handful of summers. Nevertheless I always found interesting the skateboarding culture. A culture I was never part of. So when Somos magazine asked me to do photos for a related story, I had nothing to say but yes.
This is one of the things I like about my job. The opportunity to get a look behind the curtains and beyond my world. It was like a very short trip to another world.
Walking 8000 miles
Last month I traveled to the Titicaca Lake area on assignment for Christian Foundation for Children and Aging (CFCA). Bob Hentzen, the organization’s president, is on a 8000-mile walk from Guatemala to Chile. During two days, Elie Gardner and I spent time with Hentzen and crew as they crossed the border from Peru into Bolivia. Here is a video from the experience:
Cards at the horse track
Cada vez que vengo, siempre los veo jugando. “Every time I come, I always see them playing,” said a voice behind me when I approached the table. I was at the Hipódromo de Monterrico in Lima on assignment for Gestion. It’s been about 25 years since the last time I visited this horse track. Memories of walking with my parents between those green walls lingered and blurred with what I saw.
The horses were más o menos. A horse called “Infiernillo” won the main race though it didn’t matter much. For me, it was the crowd who took the prize. The small armada of modern SUVs parked by the “socios” entrance contrasted with the older fleet parked by the general public gate. Though at the end, everybody went for the same reason. Good Sunday fun.
THE LEGACY OF ATLANTIC CANADA’S SALMON FARMING
Check out this video I produced with Christoph Schwaiger, Sean Solowiej and Anne Casselman. Personally, working on this story gave me a new perspective on fish farming. From the article:
For Abbott, to call salmon aquaculture “farming” is a misnomer. “Aquaculture isn’t just like any other farming,” he says. “It’s farming carnivores in the water. It’s a totally different equation.”
To grow one pound of farmed salmon requires roughly three pounds of wild caught fish. “It takes wild fish to grow farmed fish. That’s the key rub,” Abbott says. In short, these farms use up much more fish flesh than they produce and therefore cannot replace capture fisheries .
LIVING WITH THE KINGSTON COAL ASH SPILL
Las chimeneas de las plantas que usan carbón ya no echan humo oscuro. La mayoría de las substancias nocivas que en tiempos pasados eran liberados en la atmósfera son ahora capturados y almacenados. Pero almacenar millones de toneladas de material nocivo tiene riesgos.
Hace casi dos años en Kingston, Tennessee, un muro de contención colapsó, dejando escapar mas de un billon de galones de subproductos de la combustión de carbon.
Puedes leer más aqui.
http://www.alexandracousteau.org/field/expedition-blog/feature-community-life-support
Water
I was walking by the shores of Lake Monroe, Florida when I saw a nicely dressed gentleman getting on his knees and trying to get as close as possible to the water to fill up his bottle.
CHANCHAMAYO 2
Last weekend I visited my grandmother in Alto San Juan, a very small town in Chanchamayo, in the central rain forest of Peru. Here are some pictures from the trip.