Fieldwork Photography

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  • Puerto Maldonado Traffic
  • Clearing Beach for Artisanal Gold Mining
  • A Tocar
  • Artisanal Gold Mining
  • Draga
  • Spider Monkeys
  • Washing Clothes in the River
  • Indefinite Strike
  • Interoceanic Highway
  • Mining standing in front of a caranchera (semi-mechanized mining equipment including motor and pump, sluice box, carpeted ramp for capturing gold flakes). During the dry season (especially July-September) it is common to see smoke along beaches, where felled trees and gathered driftwood (locally referred to as palizada) incinerated to make space for mining sites.
  • Tree Climbing
  • Spider monkey, locally called maquisapa. ‘Maki’ means ‘hand’ in Quechua, sapa is the suffix for magnitude. Of the nearly dozen sympatric species in this region, Maquisapas are preferred by hunters because they are larger-bodied primates and thus provide a voluminous amount of meat. Recent conversations with conservation workers over meals has spurred me to develop interview questions to systematically ask questions about whether they continue to eat meat of wild animals after pursuing work in biodiversity conservation.
  • Poetry on the Street
  • Tukuy Yawar
  • Young Child Helps Mother Wash Clothing
  • Señor de los Milagros
  • Stevedore Carrying a Tabla
  • Mascho Piro Spears
  • Abandoned Outpost
  • Semi-Mechanized Mining
  • Sunset Over Madre de Dios
  • Astrophoto of Milky Way in Jungle
  • La Morenita Festival in Bolivia
  • Tukuy Yawar Dance of the Jaguar
  • Brazilian Teak on Interoceanic Highway
  • Herding in the Andes
  • Virgen de Candelaria Festival
  • Rain Over Pueblo Viejo
  • Fieldwork Home
  • Huaynos
  • Desfile
  • Pechiko en Motokar
  • Río Asís
  • Bubbles in the Plaza
  • Helping Mamita
  • Candelaria
  • Yunsa Ritual
  • Cuzco
  • Heredia Costa Rica
  • Plaza
  • Jaguar
  • Surf Tournament
  • Bailing on a Wave
  • Fishers at Low Tide
  • Cowboy on Beach
  • Surveying in Rain
  • Sunset at Pacific
  • S S/W Swell