This spring, Journeys to the Edge co-founder Tallulah travelled to Haida Gwaii in northern British Columbia to mount a photography exhibit. The event showcased photos from around the world that Tallulah has captured in her reporting travels with Roberta Staley to places like Haiti, Colombia, Soweto and Afghanistan. The trip to Haida Gwaii was undertaken in large…
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Glasgow Has An Art Attack
I spent this past summer in my birthplace of Scotland, photographing the people and places of that spectacular country — a nation that has blessed the rest of the world with whisky, tartan, the philosophy of Adam Smith and David Hume and the literary works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and J.K. Rowling. I spent much of my time in Glasgow,…
Amazon Healer in Colombia
This story ran recently in the travel writing blog Day Trips Travel Guide. It has a slightly unusual opening (me being incredibly ill), which nonetheless was the perfect jumping off point for a remarkable experience: being healed by shaman Baribu Geraga ‘Gustavo’ Mejia Makuna, pictured above. Gustavo and his family live in the Amazon,…
Protestors demand international community ramp up efforts to rescue Nigerian schoolgirls
“Please—rise up and take action now!” cried Comfort Ero, utilizing a megaphone at a May 10 rally in Vancouver to demand that Nigeria and the international community bolster their efforts to rescue hundreds of kidnapped schoolgirls. “Bring back our traumatized girls and ease the pain and shock of their parents!” continued Eros, president of the…
Return to Afghanistan inspires hope — and warning
Mellissa Fung How does one pass the time while a chained captive in a dusty hole in Afghanistan? Journalist Mellissa Fung, who was on assignment in 2008 with CBC News when she was kidnapped while exiting a refugee camp, prayed—a lot. She also smoked—12 cigarettes a day, carefully meted out over a 24-hour period: half…
Afghan-Canadians Condemn the Taliban and Celebrate their Nation’s Election
Leila, a Langara College student, attended the anti-Taliban rally in Vancouver. More than 75 Afghan-Canadians gathered in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery on April 6 to condemn Taliban terrorists who—despite threats of violence—were unable to derail Afghanistan’s historic national election, held April 5. “I felt like a kid on Christmas day,” said 22-year-old Hamid,…
Memorial March Honours Vancouver’s Dead Women
“I come every year to honour all our women.” Harriet Prince Every year in Vancouver on Valentine’s Day thousands of people participate in the Memorial March that starts at Main & Hastings in the heart of the Downtown Eastside. Canada’s poorest off-reserve postal code, the Downtown Eastside has been a killing field of sorts for…
The Tyee runs Journeys to the Edge article
Thanks to The Tyee for running a piece about Journeys to the Edge.