Ethnic tensions and a controversial mullah in India, bored German soldiers in Afghanistan, a stalled revolution in Syria, Gaddhafi’s fall in Libya, elections in Egypt and much in-between: This was my 2011. Above is a slideshow with some of my favorite stories and pictures from this year.
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2011 – My Year in Pictures
Friday, December 30th, 2011Tearsheets: International Herald Tribune
Monday, December 19th, 2011
International Herald Tribune, Sept. 19, 2011.
Photo of the Week XXI: India
Friday, December 16th, 2011
A woman watches over her granddaughter, Suman S.C., as she lies in labor in a Primary Health Center in Harchandpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, July 30, 2011. In a government scheme to improve maternal health, women receive 1400 Indian Rupees if they give birth in a clinic. The Primary Health Centers provide basic health care in rural India. In recent years the Indian Government has tried to improve rural health care by creating the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and providing it with massive funds. While the situation has improved the NRHM has also opened the door for widespread corruption. Recently, two doctors administering NRHM funds have been killed.
New Work: Madrassa in India Finding its Way
Friday, April 1st, 2011Here is a slideshow of a story I recently shot for the New York Times: “Mullah in Debate of Tradition vs. Modern Schooling”
Photo of the Week XV
Sunday, March 27th, 2011
Early morning a young Muslim cried during prayers in the Jamia Ishaatu Uloom, a madrassa in Akkalkuwa, Maharashtra, India, March 19, 2011. The president of the madrassa, Mullah Ghulam Mohammed Vastanvi, has been criticized by other Muslim clerics for his relatively progressive views. Vastanvi has spent the last decade bridging the divide between traditional and ÒmodernÓ education for Muslims. He has recently been named rector of the most influential orthodox Islamic schools, Dar ul-Uloom in the city of Deoband, and is now in a struggle about the school's future course.
New Work: Coal Minors
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
Anil, 15, crawls out of a so called rat hole in a coal quarry in the Jaintia Hills in the Indian state of Meghalaya, India, Aug. 6, 2010. There are an estimated 5000 mines in the Jaintia Hills, and according to NGOs 70.000 children as young as seven work there. The conditions are extremely dangerous. According to workers about four people per month die in the mines.
Under life-threatening conditions, an estimated 70,000 children work in the coal mines in the Jaintia Hills in northeast India, according to a children’s rights organization working to end the practice. The youngest of the miners are just 7 years old.
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Tearsheets: Corriere della Serra
Sunday, September 5th, 2010
Corriere della Serra, Aug. 20, 2010.
Photo of the Week VIII
Sunday, September 5th, 2010
A girl waits at Connaught Place, Delhi, India, Sept. 3, 2010.
Photo of the Week VII
Friday, August 13th, 2010
Delhi. Park. Night. Fog.
Photo of the Week VI
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
Rooftop Party, Aug. 01, 2010.
