LP4

I met LP4 when he was 15. His epidermis is still just as fine.

. . . . . . . . . baby

what makes me return home from my travels
what makes me return home after work
what makes me return home after parties
what makes me return home.

milo.

[A and I get lonely for our baby when we're gone too long....]

get thee to....

the nunnery.

santa catalina in arequipa peru.

hundreds of years old - a town within a town - where wealthy families would give their second oldest daughter for service to the church as a way of gaining favor with god. The wealthier nuns would even have a servant who lived in a small room off their quarters. I suppose it is better than sacrificing a goat...



This is a bathtub. It is filled with ivy to cover the nuns while they bathed.


The portraits on the wall were death portraits of nuns after they died.

i n c a

arequipa peru. march 3, 2005.

We forget what real poverty is.
They don't.
But with a few solares, any peruvian on the street will pose for your camera.

I wonder what she is thinking behind the smile...

spiders

A peruvian told me that the classic peaked hats with the earflaps aren't really for warmth. They are bed hats. Peruvians high up in the Andes sleep in them with the earflaps closed so spiders won't crawl into their ears at night.

Not sure if I believe that or not, but it made for a great story.

More photos to be posted... but this should keep you for now.