Just returned from a fun little trip to Arizona to photograph former GITMO guard, Terry Holdbrooks.  Holdbrooks converted to Islam, in part, because of his experiences at the detention facility.  Definitely one of those welcome assignments affording me the opportunity to learn more about one of the more contentious policies of the former administration, the off-shoring and special classification of prisoners, ostensibly to circumvent protections afforded under the Constitution and the Geneva Conventions.  The article about Holdbrooks’ experience and conversion is available online, here.  

Also made a last minute change to my ticket giving me a little extra time to work on a couple other stories while I was away, detouring first to photograph gunfights in the wild west town of Tombstone before continuing down to the newest strip of border fencing on the arid, mountainous Mexican frontier between Douglas and Nogales, Arizona.  Definitely a productive (and sleepless) few days.  More to follow from these project installments in the coming days.

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