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Here she waits on the sidelines of Unity Field in Cherokee, North Carolina for an annual stickball game to begin between rival the Cherokee communities of Big Cove, where Teesateskie lives, and Wolfetown. Stickball, “A-ne-jo-di: Little Brother of War,” began in prehistoric times as a way for tribes to settle disputes without going to war. October 7, 2016.https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/stackesarah_02.jpgStackeSarah_02Cheerleaders for the Cherokee High School Braves walk in the 2016 Fall Fair Parade in Cherokee, North Carolina. October 4, 2016.https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/lampcovmette_04.jpgWater to DustA girl is enjoying sliding into a creek that is now flowing through her family's back yard. The creek's water comes directly from melting snowpack from Mt. Whitney.https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/lampcovmette_03.jpgWater to DustIt is the beginning of June and an early heat wave is creating above average temperatures in the Owens valley. After a refreshing swim in an ice cold ditch of melted snowpack, a boy is heating up to get ready to jump back in the freezing water.https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/forsythluc_10.jpgMexico City's Last Living RiverHorses drink from the Rio Magdalena and graze on the grass that grows on its banks. As the last living river in Mexico City, the micro climate around the river is rare for the area and represents the necessity of water in sustaining life.https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/corbettjosua_06.jpgCorbettJosua_06Derek Akeya sits in a hunting blind on the coast of St. Lawrence Island, scanning for walrus or seal. 11/22/16.https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/bursoncharles_06.jpgBursonCharles_06https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/forsythluc_06.jpgForsythLuc_06A small scale farmer in Ecatapec stands in her organic garden. After her crops died due to lack of water, she took it upon herself to purchase rain water collectors so she wold not need to rely on the government again.https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/15stories-zine-11.jpg15Stories Zine 1https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/rodriquezerikap_03.jpgRodriquezErikaP_03Sebastián Alvarado, 8, waiting as his mother, Magdanamay Colón, prepared the candles for his birthday cake in Aibonito, a town in the mountainous area of the island. Aug. 5, 2012.2021-01-20T21:52:37+00:00monthlyhttps://bigpicturesais.com/2017/11/30/featured-content/https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/unknown-1-e1527710938654.pngUnknown-1https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/32388590126_a95977a0e4_o1.jpg32388590126_a95977a0e4_ohttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/32388590126_a95977a0e4_o.jpg32388590126_a95977a0e4_ohttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/annie-spratt-73579.jpgPlaceholder Image2021-01-20T21:50:56+00:00monthlyhttps://bigpicturesais.com/2019/02/11/zero-tolerance/https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/photo-2018-08-09-16-41-13.jpghttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/img_0291.jpghttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/ff399d6c-b3fc-47e5-b597-5d9597bd2163.jpgff399d6c-b3fc-47e5-b597-5d9597bd2163https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/fc4a8ef3-ea33-4f17-b683-47bc0b4dbb42.jpghttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/da4a64f3-1681-4c93-b9ee-d7c9baea337b.jpghttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/d528e904-0b4b-46a7-8511-b0a63830d680.jpghttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/d5b57f8e-5827-4199-8878-2386cd9e2d95.jpghttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/b71e4f87-d6e8-4b58-a6c9-2fe9e6f3e2c6.jpghttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/a01fb682-f170-4696-b8e6-7db4c79fadac.jpghttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/36363b9b-2523-4b9c-bb52-2cfd4126ec29.jpg2019-02-11T21:14:42+00:00monthlyhttps://bigpicturesais.com/2018/09/25/on-melancholy-and-memory-an-aleppo-memoir/https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/memorymap-1-eid1.jpgNana's favorite blue velvet chairhttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/memorymap-2-bedroom.jpgFloor plan of Nana's bedroomhttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/memorymap-3-dining-room1.jpgFloor plan of the dining roomhttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/photo1-building1.jpgNana's 1950s apartment building in the Sabeel neighborhood in Aleppohttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/photo2-vitrine1-e1613242620306.jpgPHOTO2 - VitrineInside the glass cabinet of antiques, mementos, and treasureshttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/photo3-balcony-with-ferns.jpgPHOTO3 - balcony with fernsThe side balcony with all the ferns and the plantshttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/photo4-kitchen.jpgNana cooked meals on this gas stove for over six decadeshttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/photo5-balcony1.jpgThe narrow front balcony that ran across the front of the building https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/photo6-grandfather.jpgPHOTO6 - GrandfatherPortrait of my grandfather, Judge Mohammed Aly Serjieh. A photo of his father, my great-grandfather, Haj Aly Serjieh, is tucked in the framehttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/photo7-street1.jpgNana’s little street tucked between King Faisal Boulevard and Franciscan Avenue 2018-10-03T11:22:59+00:00monthlyhttps://bigpicturesais.com/2018/09/24/what-the-holocaust-can-teach-us-about-syria-today-an-interview-with-maziar-bahari/https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/82-names-blank-poster_v1-11-e1537752061410.jpg82 Names BLANK Poster_v1 (1)https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/unknown-e1537751966864.jpegUnknown2018-09-24T10:31:23+00:00monthlyhttps://bigpicturesais.com/2018/09/18/fruits-of-impunity-collateral-damage-in-dutertes-war-on-drugs/https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/delano_duterte_drug_war_012.jpgDelano_Duterte_Drug_War_012Jazmine Durana, a 16 year old widow and single mother, takes in a light breeze on a muggy night on a bridge over the Navotas River where she likes to meet friends. Jazmine, who has a third grade educaiton, is trying to move ahead in her life after her husband "Toto" Dela Cruz was killed by masked gunmen as a part of Duterte's war on drugs. She has moved out of the Dela Cruz family house and back in with her parents, two brothers and one sister in a two room house. Hazel's biological father does not acknowledge the child is his and he now lives on the island of Samar, far from Metro Manila. Jazmine met Toto while pregnant and he accepted her as his own. Navotas, Metro Manila, Philippines Jazmine, her mother Vicky says, was often sick as a baby and young child. Jazmine stands at about 140 cm (4' 7") tall. In fact, there are many nights that the Durana family has neither food to put on the table nor formula for Jazmine's daughter, Hazel. Malnutrition is a serious issue in the slums of Metro Manila. According to Food Nutrition and Research Institute (FNRI) data in 2015, 33.4% of Filipino children suffer from chronic malnutrition or stunting. Chronic malnutrition, before the age of 5, can also stunt intellectual development. Jazmine has a third grade education, she says, because she was hit by a jeepney at the age of 9, which crushed the bones in her low leg. It took 2 years for her leg to heal. When she returned to school, as the eldest student, she felt it hard to catch up with other students, who would tease her about her age. So, Jazmine quit school. Recently, she began alternative education but felt so far behind, she gave up. Starting in December 2017, Jazmine worked as a masseuse at a South Korean-owned massage parlor in Angeles City's red-light district servicing 2 to 4 foreign male clients per day - mostly Korean and white men). She worked there only one month, saving 4,000 P (US$76.00). Jazmine says, there was no sex involved.https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/delano_duterte_drug_war_011.jpgDelano_Duterte_Drug_War_011A group of young boys sniffing glue on a street corner in Payatas, a community of people who sustain themselves by picking through a mountain of garbage for recyclable materials. The community has lost several young men to extrajudicial killings and this activity could be a death sentence (their faces have been obscured for their safety). Payatas, Metro Manila, Philippineshttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/delano_duterte_drug_war_010.jpgDelano_Duterte_Drug_War_010There are vast slums in Navotas, which are adjacent to the vast slums of Tondo, sit next to the vast slums of Malabon and so it goes. This so-called "War on Drugs" is a de facto war on the poor, the segment of Philippine society which hope more than any other that Duterte, the people's president, would lift them up. Now their slums have become killing fields. Metro Manila, Philippines.https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/delano_duterte_drug_war_009.jpgDelano_Duterte_Drug_War_009Signs of execution - The indentation on the wrist of Julius Soriano, 24 years old, shows signs that his hands were bound before he was shot to death during a police operation in Caloocan, Metro Manila. There is a bullet wound in his arm too, and the slug is still embedded in his arm, coming to a stop exactly were the indentation line left an impression in his skin, suggesting that whatever caused the indentation stopped the bullet too. In fact, all 3 victims of extrajudicial killings examined by the photographer that night (21 June 2017) had bullet wounds in their forearms suggesting that the victims had attempted, and failed, to protect themselves from assassins' bullets by blocking shots with their arms. Philippineshttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/delano_duterte_drug_war_008.jpgDelano_Duterte_Drug_War_008House where 14 year old widow, Jasmine Dorana met her partner, John "Toto" Dela Cruz, 16 years old. He was pulled out by the hair, shot and killed on this front porch by masked assassins. Bangung Bayan C4, Navotas, Metro Manila, Philippines. (Note: In the slums, it is common to be considered married by living together without a formal marriage ceremony.)https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/delano_duterte_drug_war_007.jpgDelano_Duterte_Drug_War_007Son of Junmar Abletes at his father's wake overlooked with a worried glance by his grandmother. Market 3 slum, Navotas, Metro Manila, Philippines.https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/delano_duterte_drug_war_006.jpgDelano_Duterte_Drug_War_006Jocelyn Banting, a teenage widow, is 14 years old. She lives and works in a bar next to the Market 3 slum in the Navotas Fish Port complex as a sex worker. Her common law husband/partner Alan Uba, AKA, 'Boy Muslim', was gunned down in President Duterte's "War on Drugs". Jocelyn was pregnant with another man's child, a client, when they met. After the birth, Alan accepted the child and they began living together. Jocelyn's mother, Lenie Banting, 51, takes care of baby in her small hut on the former Smoky Mountain dump which has become a perverse island of green in a sea of slums. Tondo, Manila, Philippines. (Note: In the slums, it is common to be considered married by living together without a formal marriage ceremony.)https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/delano_duterte_drug_war_005.jpgDelano_Duterte_Drug_War_005Ginnalyn Soriano, 21 encounters the body of her elder brother, Julius, 24 years old, whose corpse is being carried away in a body bag after he was executed. His body showed signs that his hands had been bound before he was shot to death during a police operation in Caloocan, Metro Manila. Philippineshttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/delano_duterte_drug_war_004.jpgDelano_Duterte_Drug_War_004Ginnalyn Soriano, 21, and her youngest brother, Jonas bid a final farewell to elder brother, Julius, 24 years old, whose corpse showed signs that his hands had been bound before he was shot to death during a police operation in Caloocan, Metro Manila. Philippineshttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/delano_duterte_drug_war_003.jpgDelano_Duterte_Drug_War_003Remy Fernandez, 84 years old, holds her grandchildren that she is raising, there are seven in all, because her son, Constantino de Juan, a Methampetamine user, was killed by masked men and the mother is in prison due to a drug arrest. Baby RJ was born in prison. Constantino, upon seeing the masked assassins, instructed CJ, five years old and wearing the red tank top, to take care of his siblings because he knew he was about to be assassinated. Payatas, Metro Manila, Philippines2018-09-18T18:10:55+00:00monthlyhttps://bigpicturesais.com/contact/https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/sheila-crider-e1528815376660.jpgSheila Criderhttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/annie-spratt-74259-e1502996454945.jpgPlaceholder Image2018-06-12T14:57:01+00:00weekly0.6https://bigpicturesais.com/exhibitions-2/https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/chinedu1.jpgChineduhttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/chinedu.jpgChinedu2018-06-12T13:53:00+00:00weekly0.6https://bigpicturesais.com/2018/06/11/black-history-global-affairs/https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/singing-and-praying-bands-001-p.jpgSinging and Praying Bands 001 pSinging and Praying bands July 6, 1987 Jefferson United Methodist, in Smithville, Dorchester County, Maryland. That is the church with the grey shingle exterior. At the time there were a number of churches on the same charge (that is, they shared one minister and everybody went to one particular of 5 churches on any given Sunday). Now the same building is called New Revived United Methodist, and it is the only one of the original 5 that is still open. It is an important group of churches, because Harriet Tubman (nee Harriet Ross, was born in one of the towns with one of those churches. New Revived U.M. has the Harriet Tubman historical marker in front of it. The Singing and Praying Bands are a continuation of a kind of service that survives from those times. info from Jonathan David, ethnomusicologist jonathancdavid@comcast.nethttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/yi.jpgYihttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/katie-dance.jpgKatie Dancehttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/durrah2.jpgDurrah2https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/robles-gordon.jpgRobles Gordonhttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/suspect.jpgSuspecthttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/mlk-kneeling.jpgMLK Kneelinghttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/dance.jpgDancehttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/crider.jpgCriderhttps://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/reception.jpgReception2018-06-12T13:41:55+00:00monthlyhttps://bigpicturesais.com/2018/05/30/the-punjabis-of-world-war-i/https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/img_6057.jpgIMG_6057https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/img_6043.jpgIMG_6043Johns Hopkins SAIS students attend viewing of Land of Peacocks on Washington, DC campus.https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/img_1666-e1527698135397.jpgIMG_1666Artist Saadia Hassan with two of her pieces in "From the Land of Peacocks" at Syra Arts Gallery in Georgetown, Washington, DC.https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/img_1667-e1527697393985.jpgIMG_1667Land of Peacocks exhibit reception at Syra Arts Gallery in Georgetown, November 1, 2017. From left: Ambassador Aizaz Chaudhry & Mrs. Najia Aizaz, Embassy of Pakistan; Saadi Hassan, Artist; Nausheen Elahi, Muse District; Shamila N. 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Alaa, a Kurdish Syrian arrived with her family in September 2015 on the first plane from Jordan.https://bigpicturesais.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/annie-spratt-74901.jpgPlaceholder Image2018-05-30T17:04:41+00:00monthlyhttps://bigpicturesais.comdaily1.02021-02-13T18:59:32+00:00