Great Mirror

One curator's decades-long atlas — 834 chapters across 77 places, each a walk through somewhere, told in photographs and prose.

834 chapters · 22,581 photographs · 77 places

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This is the prime minister's house. It's on High Street about midway between St. George's Cathedral and the ocean and was originally a priva

Guyana: From Wood to Concrete

Guyana · 2020 · 44 photos

You can see the large block of corrals near the base of the map. Just above it is the tannery or curtiembre, and at the upper left, near the

Fray Bentos: the Anglo

Uruguay · 2019 · 58 photos

We're on the south coast, just east of the Ciudad Vieja. Here, facing the water, is the headquarters of Mercosur, the organization linking t

Montevideo: Pocitos to Carrasco

Uruguay · 2019 · 28 photos

Here's the hill a few miles west of town from which Montevideo gets its name. The summit is only about 400 feet above sea level, but, as we

Montevideo's Ciudad Vieja

Uruguay · 2019 · 75 photos

Here's the main street of Joaquin Suarez. The name belongs to the longest serving president of Uruguay, but Suarez served during a rough per

Montevideo's Rural Periphery

Uruguay · 2019 · 27 photos

The entrance to the Central Cemetery. The cemetery architect, Carlo Zucchi, also did the city's premier Teatro Solis, but this rotunda was a

Uruguay Cemeteries

Uruguay · 2019 · 30 photos

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