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Global Storytelling: The Bridges to Understanding Program

27 June 2004
Published in Travel Photography

An ambitious program encourages children from around the world to share their cultural heritage with one another.

The work of photographer Phil Borges is instantly recognizable: selectively toned, medium-format portraits of people in indigenous and tribal cultures set against sweeping black-and-white landscapes. These photographs are remarkable because they clearly are collaborative works; his subjects engage the viewer with gazes so direct that the images appear to be authored just as much by...