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Travel writing about places near and far, mixing on-site photography with scholarly reflection
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View fullsize The Fountain of Neptune in Bologna in the grand plaza.. from the 16th century. The logo for Maserati cars comes from the tip of that trident! 🔱

What I’m reading,
Winter 2026:

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laborers

The +1 Martyr

December 26, 2025
Tags: Egypt, martyrdom, laborers, migration, africa

Seeing the Workers

December 01, 2024
Tags: cairo, development, laborers, dubai

Worker Dorms

September 01, 2024
Tags: cairo, work space, laborers, residences, city, dubai, class

Work in the Shadows

August 03, 2024
Tags: cairo, Egypt, laborers, construction, development, poverty

Extraction and Town Building

April 26, 2023
Tags: UP, city, laborers, forest, map

Invisible Workers

October 31, 2022
Tags: dubai, laborers, city, street scene

Leaving Quietly on a Bus

September 27, 2022
Tags: dubai, transportation, class, wealth, laborers, construction, globalization

Looking Down on Work

September 27, 2022
Tags: dubai, laborers, work space, construction, hotel, wealth, luxury

Two Global Populations

September 25, 2022
Tags: dubai, beach, city, skyscraper, laborers, class, globalization
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The Signifying City

March 06, 2021
Tags: St Louis, mounds, Native Americans, art, city, museum, power, laborers
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The Place of the Strike

January 30, 2019
Tags: Senegal, laborers, class, Marxism, railway, industrialism, novel
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Where One's Supposed to Be

January 22, 2019
Tags: Senegal, city, street scene, home, business, laborers
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On the Outskirts

November 22, 2016
Tags: india, globalization, laborers, city, outskirts