The Fabled Li-Cor [photo: Mansell Ambrose] Exposure to new ideas and disciplines has been one of the profound joys of this internship. Not only have I had the opportunity to be immersed in a completely different culture and language, but I have been challenged in my own intellectual viewpoints. Coming into college I embodied the indecision… more →
Author Archive for Peter Davis
trip logs, Zanmi Foto, Zanmi Kafe
Cellphones, Chess, and Children’s Games
Opening Moves [photo: Mansell Ambrose] Cell phones, chess, children’s games. All of these things seem to be indicative of some sort of global shared culture. As soon as I stepped off the plane in Port au Prince my mind began subconsciously looking for connections between the familiar and the unfamiliar. It’s only natural for the… more →
Coffee, trip logs
Present vs Future
Mirebalais market thoroughfare, Haiti, June 2015 [photo: Mansell Ambrose] As a foreigner it seems wherever you go in Haiti there is always someone who will ask you either for money or food. The questions come in all shapes and sizes; whether it be a woman running after you in the city-street, an old man in… more →
trip logs, Zanmi Kafe
Greyness
Watson listening to music on his cellphone. Dusk. Bois Jolie, Haiti. May, 2015. [photo: Pradip Malde] When one is inundated in an alien situation it seems that the mind attempts to categorize the situation in terms of similarities and dissimilarities, the good and the bad, what is acceptable and what is not, etc. In my experience… more →