FIELD NOTES & DISPATCHES.
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View fullsize The river found us in many forms. A bright sharp spray cut to pieces in the sun, a green sheet running swift and cold, or a long tumbledown from mouths of stone beating heavy on our shoulders. We chased a kind of equilibrium at 103 degrees. The deser
View fullsize America’s cathedrals are works of nature. Carved by time and patient water, the canyon is a reminder of the scale of our lives. Down at the bottom of everything, you remember that you are born with a Sense of Time. A seventh sense that we too o
View fullsize The two things I’ve been missing most have been community and the great outdoors. Last month I had a birthday. I brought together a small group of artists to raft-camp 226 miles of the Grand Canyon, from Lee’s Ferry to Diamond Creek, duri
View fullsize Notes on a better world, in a time of political and social upheaval. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ We must live our lives always trying to make the world incrementally better, because if we give up, we make the world exponentially worse. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Raghida & Hind, Molham Orp
View fullsize An Education. Aarsal, Lebanon, 9 miles from the Syrian Border. October 2019 #LoveHasNoBorders
View fullsize In October I spent a week on the Syrian-Lebanese border working with @ChooseLove and @MolhamTeam to tell the stories of the people living and working on the frontlines of the ongoing crisis. Now, you can hear these stories, see these photographs, and
View fullsize Fuji memories, top of the pops. #AsiaMajor
View fullsize Happy Thanksgiving from the top of the top! #AsiaMajor
View fullsize A little time at the edge of existence helps you remember all the things that are really important to you. Here, Oscar stands at the summit gate of Mount Fuji for the seventh time, helping me fulfill something of a lifelong dream with our off-season
View fullsize Food is culture, and the risks you take in both come down to a fundamental curiosity about the world - about what you’re willing to try (everything) and where you’re willing to go (everywhere). Local climate dictates the basic tenets of w
View fullsize These days the trees seem to speak - of the way things are changing, and the way things always stay the same. Maybe their colors and branches aren’t metaphors for human life, maybe they were the model. The guideline that nature took to devise t
View fullsize After spending the last two weeks almost entirely in the moment, the beautiful process of missing everyone and everything that made it all so special begins. Straight from the Middle East to East Asia, we took part in the weddings of very dear friend
View fullsize I have been fortunate enough to visit many places, and many people, doing what I do - but here it has been especially hard to leave. I think more than anything, it’s the feeling of being necessary. These kids really need you, and if you stayed,
View fullsize I’m posting this less than 12 miles from the Syrian border, as Erdogan begins his offensive, and the United States betrays another promise to the people who needed it most. For now, rather than focusing on the politics (I’ll get to that),
View fullsize Three and a half years ago, I embarked on a project with some of the best people I knew to spend a month in Greece sharing stories from the Syrian refugee crisis. We didn’t have it all figured out, we only knew we wanted to use our art to make
View fullsize If I invented a holiday, it would probably be something like Swiss National Day. Get your closest friends and family together on the tallest mountain you can find, eat homemade foods, sing loud songs, and build a bonfire in celebration of nature and
View fullsize Look after the things you love. #October7th
View fullsize Magic in the mountains, the sunset of summit day. The older I get, the more I understand that I’m searching for the profound. In art, in work, in the mountains, all of this life is lived in pursuit of the things that words can never fully descr
View fullsize On our descent from the summit of Mont Blanc, alpenglow on the east ridge just seconds before sunrise. 15,420’ #MakeNoLittlePlans
View fullsize You learn as much coming down as you do going up. A descent carousel of some of my favorite images from a very difficult morning on Mont Blanc. These first three shots were taken seconds apart, standing in the exact same spot - just turning 90° e