“As the international community effectively concedes that Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad has won the war, Syrian women are conspicuously absent from negotiations to end the fighting.

But in Turkey, Syrian women are carving out new lives apart from conflict.” Molly O’Toole reports, with photo by Jodi Hilton for Washington Post’s The Lily Magazine.

The Bobov Dol mine in Bulgaria is closing. During its heyday, 1,500 people worked there but that number is now down to less than 400. They, too, are being made redundant. My article and photographs in Deutsche Welle. 

Here are my photographs in a New York Times article from 2012 of lovely Plovdiv, Bulgaria, which in 2019 is the European Capital of Culture, alongside another of my favorite cities, Matera, Italy.