A collage of some memorable moments I've photographed over the past couple of years.

A view of two camels in The Sharqiya Sands, a region of desert in Oman.

A long time ago in a far away land, there was a beautiful little village in the mountains, and not too far from this village, there was a river that provided drinking water for the villagers. For reasons

Shy schoolchildren in Bamyan, Afghanistan.

I took this photo in the midst of Correfoc, an annual Catalan tradition in Barcelona.

I took this photo of a Samurai descendant in Kyoto, Japan. Even though the Samurai gave up their swords more than a century ago, their descendants can still be found in every corner of Japanese society.

I took this photo while taking an evening stroll in Takayama, a quaint little town in Japan’s mountainous Gifu Prefecture.

Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan

A long time ago, there was a village somewhere on the far side of this world, and within this village, there was a river that provided drinking water for the villagers. For reasons unknown, the river suddenly

The Walled Off Hotel, opened by the artist Banksy, sits just across from the Israeli security barrier in the West Bank city of Bethlehem.

Tad, a Vietnam veteran from Hawaii, smokes a pipe in San Francisco.

A Persian girl smiles for the camera in Isfahan, Iran.

A view inside Shah Mosque, an architectural masterpiece, in Isfahan, Iran.

“I don’t know if it’s contaminated around here and I don’t care or worry about it. There are worse things, like hunger and war.” Paryshiv, Ukraine

The wildlife at Chernobyl is very likely better than it was before the accident, not because radiation is good for animals, but because human occupation is much worse. Pripyat, Ukraine

Meet Ivan, one of the last remaining self-settlers in Chernobyl. Like many others, Ivan was sent to Kiev, away from his home in Paryshiv, as a result of what turned out to be the world’s worst nuclear

Radiation is ominous. You can’t see it, feel it, or even smell it. If you do however, it’s probably too late.. Pripyat, Ukraine

Inside the operating room at one of the abandoned hospitals. Pripyat, Ukraine

Children’s gas masks are scattered around the floor inside a school in the ghost town of Pripyat. Pripyat, Ukraine

Inside a kindergarten in Pripyat. When the city was evacuated shortly after the nuclear disaster, the people were told they would be able to return to their homes in a matter of days. It has been more