Children play in the clear waters of the Kuang Si Waterfall located just outside Luang Pabang in northen Lao. Years ago people believed that nine snake protected that sacred waterfall. These nine snakes had red color on thier neck, different then all other snakes in the region. People believed that no one should kill these [...]
Armenia
John Stanmeyer2015-12-14T06:15:14+00:00Portrait of Arshak Manukyan hangs on the wall in his sons home, Varazdat Manukyan, 104, was born in Kars, Western Armenia, in 1911. His wife Vard Manukyan was born in 1924 and died in 2000. He lost his parents and family during the Genocide in 1915 and fled as a five-year-old child. He grew up [...]
Armenia
John Stanmeyer2015-12-14T06:17:41+00:00Fuel pipes in a village in northern Armenia, a legacy of the Russian era.
Ethiopia
John Stanmeyer2019-01-06T00:29:19+00:00Only a puddle remains along a dried up portion of the Awash as pastoralists herds their camel back to their villages just outside Logyia in the Afar region of Ethiopia. A massive concrete wall, behind, holds back water that's being channeling from the main Awash River over to the Tendaho Sugar Factory Project in Dubti [...]
Armenia
John Stanmeyer2015-12-14T06:15:04+00:00Lada part in Zovasar, a small village in the mountains of Aragatsotn Province. Zovasar was settled by ethnic Armenians who fled their homes in Eastern Turkey during genocide between 1915-22. The parents and grandparents always told their offspring there was no need to develop Zovasar village nor build new homes, believing they would return to [...]