Romania is aging and, at the same time, it’s Transylvania region experiences depopulation once again. This time in an even more devastating way than during the Saxon emigration in medieval times. It is estimated that 4 million Romanians (20% of the general population), especially those from the rural areas, have left the country to work [...]

Images in this series are examining the growing demands on, and changes in, the world’s production of food. These images are segments that I have photographed in 2008 and are all part a long term series for The New York Times.

 
The Canadian Family Farm has been a way of life for as long as Canada has been a nation.  It has fed a country and the world through a variety of international relief agencies.  Yet this longstanding noble profession is too facing an uncertain future.
Rising input costs, in seed, fuel, fertilzer and declining prices for [...]

With the title taken from a popular expression from the Douro and Trás-os-Montes region, this work reflects about the people that leave beyond the slopes of the Douro River, engrained in the land that sustains it’s hunger and the faith that points towards the skies.

Involved in a mythical image of a land with history, consecrated [...]

For decades, the Golden Triangle, a large territory across Burma, Thailand and Laos, provided the bulk of the world’s opium and heroin. Chemists in Northern Burma’s secret laboratories were processing heroin “number 4″, a pure form of the drug. Today, most of the opium and heroin business has been taken over by Afghanistan and other [...]

Laurent Delaporte, of Emmanville near Rouen has always made cider with his grandfather’s wooden press. He uses special apples from his father’s small farm and also from some land he owns nearby. Making cider this way is very labour intensive. Most people use a hydraulic press that is brought from village to village, squeezing the [...]