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Market Family
Date: 07/06/2007
Views: 115
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Rear Window
Date: 11/06/2007
Views: 88
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Welcome to the Jungle
In the mangrove forests of El Espino where the currileros dig for clams in the mud of the forest floor. Leica MDa, Voigtlander 15mm Super Wide Heliar, Kodak 400CN,
Date: 11/06/2007
Views: 89
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Early To Rise
Early morning at a home-based bread factory in the San Salvador suburb of Soyapango. The entire family works to make rolls for markets and restaurants. Leica M6TTL, 50mm Summicron, Kodak 400 CN
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 81
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007
007... One of my entourage of police gaurds that accompanied me while filming in Soyapango. Leica M6TTL, 50mm Summicron, Kodak 400CN.
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 88
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Railroaded
Entire communities have arisen along the edges of abandoned railroad tracks in and around San Salvador, such as these houses in the suburb of Delgado. There are plans to resurrect the rail system and it is unclear how this would affect such communties in
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 94
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Baker's Break
Two boys take a break from baking rolls after sunrise in a home bread factory in Soyapango. Leica M6TTL, 50mm Summicron, Kodak 400CN.
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 96
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Mayor Carlos Ruiz
Carlos Ruiz, FMLN Party Mayor of Soyapango, El Salvador, one of San Salvador's most dangerous suburbs. Leica M6TTL, 50mm Summicron, Kodak 400CN.
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 84
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Club Feet
This little boy was born with twisted feet, leaving him basically unable to walk. S.A.R.A. is looking into bringing him to the US for corrective surgery. Leica M6TTL, 50mm Summicron, Kodak 400CN.
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 91
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Fishermen
Men fish from a small boat on the river through the mangrove forests of El Espino. Leica M6TTL, 50mm Summicron, Kodak 400CN.
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 83
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Morning Commute
Currileros on a baot taking them into the forests where they will dig in the jungle mud for currilos (clams) to supplement their family incomes. Leica M6TTL, 50mm Summicron, Kodak 400CN.
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 71
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Up the River
View from the bow of the boat going up a small tributary in the mangrove jungles of El Salvador's Pacific coast. I looked, while going up the river, for Senor Kurtz, but if he's there he eluded me. Leica M6TTL, 50mm Summicron, Kodak 400CN.
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 82
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Currilero
Currilero. Leica M6TTL, 50mm Summicron, Kodak 400CN.
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 80
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After Work Cigar
After digging clams out of the mangrove this currilero smokes a cigar while waiting to board the boat home. The children often smoke, both out of habit and to keep the mosquitos and other biting insects at bay. Leica M6TTL, 50mm Summicron. Kodak 400CN.
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 107
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Off to Work
Currileros board a boat to take them out into the mangroves at a little after 0500. Leica M6TTL, 50mm Summicron, Kodak 400CN.
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 79
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Felipe Arevalo
This man, Felipe Arevalo, in his mid-forties, works as a fisherman and his children as currileros. Leica M6TTL, 50mm Summicron, Kodak 400CN.
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 82
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Felipe and his Daughter
Fisherman Felipe Arevalo and one of his daughters in front of their house near El Espino. Leica M6TTL, 50mm Summicron, Kodak 400CN.
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 74
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Kill Minnie
In a small Salvadoran mountain town the children forget their woes by bashing open paper animals and eating their candied guts. Leica MDa, 15mm Voigtlander Super Wide Heliar, Kodak 400CN.
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 103
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Feeding Frenzy
The pinata is down and the children feed. Leica MDa, 15mm Voigtlander Super Wide Heliar, Kodak 400CN.
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 93
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Joyce Gilberg
S.A.R.A. delegation member Joyce Gilberg of New Bremen, Ohio talks with a young Salvadoran.
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 94
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FMLN Elder
This man fought in the civil war on the side of the rebels, he lost family and doesn't see too well now that he well into his eighties. But he still can manage a smile when he points to his many grand and great grandchildren and the huge trees he planted
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 91
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Sharon Shines
Sharon Fiely, a S.A.R.A. delegation member, presents an original painting to Bishop Gomez and the Lutheran Church of San Salvador. Leica M6TTL, 50mm Summicron, Kodak 400CN.
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 88
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Kim and Scruffy Visit the Hospital
Kim Hemmelgarn of New Bremen, Ohio and a young cancer patient in a San Salvador hospital that recieves some S.A.R.A. funding.
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 108
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Bishop Gomez and Domingo Santacruz
Bishop Gomez of the San Salvador Lutheran Church speaks in his office after services about the importance of faith. Behind him is Domingo Santacruz, Director of the CRD (Coordinadora para la Reconstruccion y Desarollo) a Salvadoran NGO heavily connected w
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 123
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John Gilberg
John Gilberg of New Bremen, a strong force in the S.A.R.A. project's efforts in El Salvador. Leica M6TTL. 50mm Summicron. Kodak 400CN.
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 117
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It's Off to Work They Go
Two boats of currileros head out into the mangroves early in the morning. Leica M6TTl, 50mm Summicron, Kodak 400CN.
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 117
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S.A.R.A. Delegation
The S.A.R.A. delegation visits the Zuniga family near El Espino. Sharon Fiely films with my video camera while I take stills. Leica M6TTL. 50mm Summicron. Kodak 400CN.
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 103
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Nina
A young Salvadoran girl in the town of El Espino. Leica M6TTL, 50mm Summicron, Kodak 400CN.
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 114
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Dr. Efrain
Dr. Efrain Alvarenga is one of the young physicians S.A.R.A. funds so that remote communities, previously without medical care, can have a doctor several days of the week. Leica M6TTL, 50mm Summicron, Kodak 400CN.
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 115
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Playground
These children represent the dichotomy in developing countries between the need to work and the ability to still play. Leica M6 TTL, 50mm Summicron, Kodak 400CN.
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 108
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Waiting to Die
This man has no one left. He spends his days in a home for the abandoned and lost. He has his guitar and on Sundays he goes to church. Leica M6TTL. 50mm Summicron. Kodak 400CN.
Date: 11/06/2007
Views: 112
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Wise Woman
This woman approached me in the town square in Apopa and gently tugged at my elbow. She indicated that I take her photo. I shot three frames and she winked at me and walked away. Leica M6TTL, 50mm Summicron, Kodak 400CN.
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 84
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Kim and Kids
Kim Hemmelgarn of New Bremen, Ohio and children in a San Salvador inner city orphanage. Leica M6TTL, 50mm Summicron, Kodak 400CN.
Date: 10/23/2007
Views: 117
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