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... and from everyday life Outside the Wire in the civilized world's most frightening discomfort zones
 
  the Streets of  the Brazilian slums in Rio de Janeiro *Rocinha 2011  



        


 
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The Streets of the Rocinha Favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The poetry of everyday life in the largest un-pacified favela slum in Latin America
on the cusp of Brazil's emergence as a world economic giant and of Rio's hosting of the World Cup of Fútbol in 2014 and Olympic Games in 2016.
 

Rocinha street photo
  the Streets of the *Cold War (1982-1991 & 1997)  
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Streets of the Cold War: Chapter 1
The bloody US-funded War in El Salvador between 1982 & 1984 was the front-line hot spot on the Cold War battlefield between the allies of Capitalism and  those of Communism		 *
Streets of the Cold War: Chapter 2
The end of the Cold War came with the fall of the Berlin Wall and this series about Peace Breaking Out was shot in Europe leading up to Reunification on Oct.3, 1990
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Streets of the Cold War: Chapter 3
The Russian Revolution of 1991 was the beginning of the end of the 45-year post-WWII Cold War and this series was made between Russia's stand and the end of the USSR		 *
Streets of the Cold War: Chapter 4
Havana Cuba in 1997 as the Clinton Administration tried to loosen the Antiquated Embargo. Then in 2000 Bush was elected on the back of the anti-Castro block in Florida ...		  
  the Streets of  *Natural Disasters (1997-1999 & 2005)  
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Streets of the Montserrat Volcano Disaster
This series was shot in great peril from the streets directly under the eruption. Watch as the Soufriere Hills Volcano chases 200 holdouts from their Salem Montserrat streets in 1997		 *
 Streets of the Aftermath
of Hurricane Katrina & the Flood of New Orleans

Shot in 2005 on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and in a Pirogue floating down Canal Street in New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of hurricane Katrina		  
  the Streets of the *Terror War (2001)  
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Streets of the Terror War: Chapter 1
Post 9-11 Stranded in Europe to Ground Zero in New York on two occasions in late November as the wreckage continued to burn and the recovery of bodies dragged on		 *
Streets of the Terror War: Chapter 2
The Pakistan/Afghanistan Tribal Belt off the Khyber Pass and Peshawar and Islamabad, Pakistan at the time of Tora Bora from December 2 to December 17, 2001		  
  Moments in Time from  *Other Historic Streets  (1983-2006)  
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Other Small Moments of History
from life's other side
Often single historical images caught along the way from streets bathed in the history of  Extraordinary Events and Memorable Occurrences
 
 		  

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