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Another Life
Interview with Westley RichardsThese days Tito West guides people on safaris, but fifteen years ago he was a freshly graduated geology student heading to Africa, trying to find a place in the world. While working as an apprentice professional hunter, he found himself gravitating more and more to the camera and he ultimately decided to change course - from becoming a professional hunter to exploring the world with his camera.
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China Road
EthiopiaWhen we first saw him he was out walking along a road in a place that seemed a long way from anywhere. The Mursi called this the China Road because the workers building it were a product of that country’s One Belt One Road initiative that had been spreading across the continent for several years now. It ran from South Sudan to the port at Eritrea on the shores of the Red Sea; its sole purpose being a means by which the new country could export its oil reserves to the far east since they have no infrastructure for doing so otherwise.
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