Peace Corps Volunteers from Left to Right: Benjamin Rojsuontikul, Kelli Stam, Julian Ramirez-Lohner, Sam Shepard, Jake Pritchard On May 30th, Mother’s Day in Nicaragua, a group of Peace Corps volunteers hit the streets of Granada, armed with glue, rolls of paper, brushes and memories of their experiences over the past two years. Each volunteer had […]
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The Power of Photography as Documentation of Lost Cultural Heritage
I am feeling nostalgic for Moldova today and so I pulled out my Peace Corps photo albums and ran through the entire collection. When I came across the images below I felt pangs of both sorrow and anger. These vibrant Soviet-era murals were a part of the casa de cultura (community center) in my village […]