History in Time (Danger Streets) x78

Photographs from The Civilized World’s Most Frightening Discomfort Zones

Ground Zero
New York, mid-November, 2001

Taliban Escape on Unguarded Tribal Belt Backroad Adjacent to the Khyber Pass and Tora Bora
Federally Administered Tribal Area (Tribal Belt) at the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border near Peshawar, Pakistan
December 15, 2001

Afghanistan Refugee camp Cemetery at a Pakistan Army Border Fort
In the Tribal Belt on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Border, December 2001

Being There
Peshawar, Pakistan, December 2001

Dead or Alive
At a business still open adjacent to Ground Zero in New York at Thanksgiving | November, 2001

Afghan Refugee Camp Wagon Whip
outside Peshawar, Pakistan | December, 2001

Osama bin Laden Tribute T-shirt Vendor
Peshawar, Pakistan, December 2001

Taliban Hassle
Peshawar, Pakistan | December, 2001

Border Negotiation
Federally Administered Tribal Area (Tribal Belt) at the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border near Peshawar, Pakistan
December, 2001

Europe 2015: A Murmuration of Fear
London, England

Europe 2015: At an Afternoon Cafe Sit
Paris, France

Europe 2015: Time out at a Paris Cafe
Paris, France

Alleyway Poverty Post Clutter Girl
Jatari Campesino, Ecuador
(A poverty-stricken alpine farming community high up in the Andes Mountains)

Right Wing Death Squad Victim
Puerto del Diablo Scenic Overlook and Wartime Massacre Dump,
El Salvador civil war 1982

Civilian Victim of an FMLN “Road Advisory”
Guazapa, El Salvador 1982

Right Wing Death Squad Victim
El Playon Lava Flow and Wartime Massacre Dump,
El Salvador civil war 1982

Resting Places: Milltown IRA Cemetery
(All the Irish Republican Army gravestones read “Murdered by the British”)
Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1983

Bangkok, Thailand | The 2011 Flood of Thailand

Suchitoto Violin
He playing to and backing up the staccato and base of machine guns
and mortar explosions from the Salvadoran Army as they entered the town.
Suchitoto, El Salvador civil war 1982

Suchitoto Kiss
As 4000 Salvadoran Army regulars charged into town from the southwest
and several dozen FMLN guerrillas melted away into the jungle toward the northeast.
Suchitoto, El Salvador civil war 1982

War, Woman and Children | A Missing Man’s Family
Guazapa, El Salvador 1982

War Time
Suchitoto, El Salvador Civil War 1984

India Slum Billboard with House & Girl
Delhi, India

Just Hang on to What You Got
West Berlin, West Germany 1990, after The Wall came down and before Reunification

Havana Beaded Che Vendor
Havana, Cuba 1997

Reunification Kiss
Cologne, United Germany | 12:01 a.m., October 3, 1990

Europe 2015: Post-Cluttered Terror Troops on Cafe March
Le Marais District, 4th arrondissement, the Jewish Quarter (under extreme alert)
Paris, France
In the springtime of 2015, three months after the Charlie Hebdo attacks

Europe 2015 (untitled)
Oxford Street | London, England

Valentine’s Day on a balcony at the Louvre: Paris, France (2020) #1

Valentine’s Day on a balcony at the Louvre: Paris, France (2020) #2

Valentine’s Day on a balcony at the Louvre: Paris, France (2020) #3

An anxious time for terror attacks and political upheaval:
just after the violent Yellow Vest protests
and just as the coronavirus began breaking out in Europe

Sandlot Baseball at a Malecón Vacant Lot
Havana, Cuba 2013

MasterCard, Visa – – – Che…
Havana, Cuba 1997

Havana Sidecar RainScape
Havana, Cuba

Diet Sleep | Freedom Summer 1990
Florence, Italy

Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Accordingly Asleep
Prague, Czechoslovakia| Freedom Summer 1990

Pondering the Complexity of it All
Havana, Cuba 2013

I Dreamed a Starry Night
Moscow, USSR/Russia, Fall 1991

Devastatingly Beautiful
The Flood of New Orleans from a Boat on Canal Street a few days after Hurricane Katrina
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 2005

Mangled McDonalds and Ronald Signed by First Responders
Mississippi Gulf Coast
along Highway 90, Gulfport, Mississippi, just days after Hurricane Katrina in 2005

The Edge of the Heat
Plymouth, Montserrat (the abandoned capitol of pre-eruption Montserrat) 1997

Volcano Victim (Lost Her House)
Geralds, Montserrat

Soufrière Hills Volcano Erupts | Salem Eruption #1 | September 22, 1997, 10:46 am
Montserrat, Eastern Caribbean

A Footlong Gun Play at the Winter Palace
St. Petersburg, USSR/Russia, October 3, 1991

Soviet Black Marketeers
Leningrad to St. Petersburg | USSR to Russia, 1991

The Rest of Stalin (with a Decapitated Lenin Head in the Background)
Moscow, USSR/Russia, Fall 1991

Russian White House Tank Barricades
Moscow, USSR to Russia, Fall 1991

Russian Revolutionaries at the Russian White House Tank Barricades
Moscow, USSR/Russia, Fall 1991

Waiting for Improvements
New York, New York, USA, 1987

Nation
Paris, France, 1990

Every Generation Needs a New Revolution
Soweto, South Africa, Freedom Day, April 27, 2006

Gang Run Gambling Ring Shooting Craps on the Street in Soweto
Soweto, South Africa, Freedom Day, April 27, 2006

Favela da Rocinha, Brazil (Under Gang Control 2011)

Rio Rocinha DSC_1479

Favela da Rocinha, Brazil (After “Pacification” 2012)

Rocinha 17-panel Wired 2011 (Under Gang Control)

Favela da Rocinha, Brazil (Under Gang Control 2011)

Favela da Rocinha, Brazil (After the World Cup Left Town 2014)

Rocinha Wired 2014 #1 (After the World Cup Left Town)

Favela da Rocinha, Brazil (Under Gang Control 2011)

Favela da Rocinha, Brazil (After the World Cup Left Town 2014)

Rocinha Wired 2014 #3 (After the World Cup Left Town)

Five on a Bench
Warsaw, Poland | Freedom Summer 1990

Street Football : Reinventing Medellín After Escobar
Comuna #13 | Medellín, Colombia

Peshawar Street Kitchen
Peshawar, Pakistan Refugee Camp, December 2001

Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Mugunga Refugee Camp, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Watering Goma | Democratic Republic of the Congo

Copenhagen, Denmark (2018)

Mugunga Refugee Camp, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Mugunga Refugee Camp & Goma (volcanic wasteland), Democratic Republic of the Congo

Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Mugunga Refugee Camp, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Wired Goma | Democratic Republic of the Congo

Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.

Sake, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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** This collection of 50 selected Gary Mark Smith History in Time (danger street) photographs were made between 1982 and 2015 during some of Smith’s many historically significant self-insertions on four continents

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1982-1984 | Cold War and US-funded Civil War in El Salvador
(El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras & Nicaragua)

1983 | The “Troubles” in Northern Ireland
Belfast to Londonderry (Derry)

1990 | End of the Cold War: Freedom Summer 1990
German Reunification & European Unification
West Germany to East Germany to occupied Poland
to Czechoslovakia to Hungary to Yugoslavia to United Germany

1991 | The Soviet Union Implodes
Leningrad to St. Petersburg to revolutionary Moscow

1997-2013 | Forbidden City | Havana, Cuba

1997-1999 | The Montserrat Volcano Disaster
abandoned Plymouth;
The holdouts of Salem and the eruption of September 22, 1997, 10:46 am

2001-2002 | The post 9-11 World
From Amsterdam to Kansas to Ground Zero in New York
to Pakistan and the Tribal Belt on the Afghanistan/Pakistan Border
over the Khyber Pass adjacent to the battle of Tora Bora

2005 | The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the Flood of New Orleans
Mississippi Gulf Coast Highway 90 | Slidel on Lake Pontchartrain | New Orleans

2006 | Soweto, South Africa on Freedom Day, April 27, 2006

2008 |Poverty Above Tree Line in the Andes
Jatari Campesino, Ecuador

2011-2014 | Infiltrating the Gang-controlled Streets of a Notorious Brazilian Slum
Favela da Rocinha, Brazil

2011 | The Hundred Year Flood of Bangkok, Thailand

2011 | The Slums of New Delhi, India

2013 | Comuna #13 – – Reinventing Medellin, Colombia after Escobar

2015 | Paris on alert in springtime after the Charlie Hebdo attacks

2018 | Hurricane Florence | Wilmington, N.C. landfall

2019 | Erdogan Mosque at Taksim Square, Istanbul, Eurasia,
the Front Line of Religious Difference Between NorthWest and SouthEast

2020 | Covid-19/LFK Lawrence, Kansas During the Coronavirus
Lockdown of 2020

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