The Faces

A miscellany of portraits taken during recent travels.

By Christopher Frey

A miscellany of portraits taken during recent travels.

Kumasi, Ghana. He promised he could get you anything you needed. & whenever you asked how he was doing, he said: 'Cool as a pregnant chicken.'Diyarbakir, Turkey. This kid naturally stood out from his gang.Diyarbakir, Turkey. I noticed this girl intently sweeping the gravel as though it were the floor of a home contained by four imaginary walls.Tenzug, Ghana. The keeper and fetish priest of the village shrine with son.Konkwa, Ghana. The village women put on a dance for me.Konkwa, Ghana.Konkwa, Ghana.El Estor, Guatemala.Georgetown, Guyana. He was affixing weird geegaws to a pair of swim googles. Why? 'To tell the real temperature.'Guatemala City, Guatemala. 'Missing' posters—the civil war's disappeared—glued into the pavement in front of the Presidential Palace.Kumawu, Ghana. Nana Abass, 2nd from left back row, is a popular fetish priest in Kumasi. With his crew building a water containment dam for the village.Diyarbakir, Turkey.Tenzug, Ghana.Ivankiw, Ukraine. At the market.Konkwa, Ghana. Village elder Richard and one of his wives. I love her shirt.Ivankiw, Ukraine. Raw pork fat (salo) anyone?Guatemala City, Guatemala. May Day rally.Guatemala City, Guatemala. May Day rally.Istanbul, Turkey. Anti-NATO Communist Party protest.Istanbul, Turkey. Anti-NATO Communist Party protest.Ferryland, Newfoundland. Um...Ferryland, Newfoundland.Fairview, Guyana. Pentacostal service.Fairview, Guyana. Roy.Sychovka, Russia. Baba Shura and her two sisters still live on the long abandoned collective farm.Istanbul, Turkey. Ali and Mohammed were Somali refugees who'd just made it to Turkey after a month stowing on ships from Mogadishu, via Yemen and Syria.Ivankiw, Ukraine. Girl I met at the local orphanage.Ivankiw, Ukraine. Valentina in the orphanage where she lives, near Chornobyl. She's holding a picture of her favourite singer, Ruslana, Ukrainian winner of the Eurovision contest.Istanbul, Turkey. I found these two kids in an alley in Çihangir, rooting through old furniture.Istanbul, Turkey. Kurdish girls working in a textile factory, doing a job for Zara.Georgetown, Guyana. An urban bushman, homeless, cooking up a pot of cassava stew for himself.El Estor, Guatemala. Rubi helps her parents run the family restaurant. She dreams of opening a rustic little beach resort just outside of town.Georgetown, Guyana. The goggleman checks out the temperature.

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