Gymnasium near the Shah-Do Shamshira Mosque, Kabul, Afghanistan

The Grand Buddha Cave at Bamiyan, Afghanistan

Kinny Mattia tries to feel the morning light. "Milton Margai" is the only school for the blind in Sierra Leone. Approx. 85 children, 4 to 18 yrs old, study and live here. In 1998, when RUF-rebels attacked Freetown, the school had to be evacuated. In

Kinny Mattia plays the piano. Milton Margai School for the Blind. Children learn to play music: drums, piano, flute, and they learn singing. As street musicians, some children could make a small living for themselves.

Man praying and reading the Koran inside the Grand Blue Mosque, Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan

Brothers Reza and Hussein, shooting up heroin, Kabul, Afghanistan

[Two unidentified girls, one eating watermelon, the other disrobing]

Portrait of Kinny Mattia the day of his birthday.