History in Time (Danger Streets) x112
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
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
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 Paris, France (2020) #1
Valentine’s Day Paris, France (2020) #2
Valentine’s Day 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
Napping at Erdogan Mosque at Taksim Square, Istanbul Eurasia
A Monument to Turkey’s Secular Past,
Now the Front Line Between NorthWest and SouthEast
Napping at Erdogan Mosque at Taksim Square, Istanbul Eurasia
A Monument to Turkey’s Secular Past,
Now the Front Line of Religious Difference Between NorthWest and SouthEast
23-Panel Vertical Minaret Quilt
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
The Trump Administration Soils the American Presidency
Hilton Head, South Carolina, U.S.A., March, 2018
Favela da Rocinha, Brazil (Under Gang Control 2011)
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
Mugunga Refugee Camp, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Watering Goma | Democratic Republic of the Congo
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
Sake, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Hurricane Florence
September 2018 | Landfall at Wilmington, North Carolina
Hurricane Florence
September 2018 | Landfall at Wilmington, North Carolina
Kobe Bryant Memorial on Melrose Avenue
January 30, 2020/ Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Holton, Kansas
KU Icons Doing Their Part During Coronavirus Lockdown
The Empty Lockdown Streets of Lawrence
Ottawa, Kansas U.S.A.
Granada Theatre/ Lawrence, Kansas During Lockdown
COVID Essential Service Swarm #1 x21
Mullen Fire Lone Tree (176,840 acres burnt)
At the headwaters of the Platte River, Jackson County, Colorado
Wyoming Mullen Fire From Colorado Ranch
Jackson County, Colorado
Colorado Mullen Fire Late Afternoon Autumn Flare-up #2
Jackson County, Colorado
Colorado Mullen Fire From Helicopter Retardant-Drop Reload Depot at Front Lines
At the headwaters of the Platte River
Jackson County, Colorado
Winter Park, Colorado U.S.A.
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Caution:
Reckless Abandon: Why So Many Died
Mount Oread, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas (enrollment 28,447)
The University of Kansas chapter of Phi Gamma Delta hosted streaming & screaming sorority girls on wheels, all partying in close contact with one another in broad daylight at the beginning of fall semester 2020 – – – like there was no COVID danger at all – – – unintimidated doing so only feet from their neighbor, the Chancellor of the the University, Dr. Douglas Girod.
The following day the house was scolded by their neighbor
and everyone in that house and nine other fraternities & sororities were put under strict quarantine lockdown for 14 days.
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Letter from Chancellor Douglas A. Girod dated August 26, 2020
Yesterday we shared with you the latest results of our community COVID-19 entry testing. These results included 19,452 tests with a positivity rate of 1.14%. Within that overall population, we noted that our Greek community is testing at a rate of 5.47%.
Today I am writing to inform you that Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health has issued 14-day quarantine orders for residents of nine of our sorority and fraternity houses, and is in the process of issuing an order for a tenth house.
The houses that have been issued quarantine orders are Pi Kappa Phi, Phi Gamma Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Phi Kappa Psi, Gamma Phi Beta, Delta Delta Delta, Alpha Chi Omega, Sigma Nu, Kappa Alpha Theta, and Beta Theta Pi.
Homeless on Wheels Talking on His Computer Phone Planted at Alley CellSpot
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Common Sense T-shirt: Window Shopping the Plague #7
Lawrence, Kansas
Idaho Springs, Colorado U.S.A.
October 2020: Waiting For the Light to Change
Boulder, Colorado (population 107,353)
COVID Rider Riding the Grid: It’s All So Much Bigger Than Any One of Us:
The Virus is killing thousands every day, the politicians fight like we have no
problems to fix, the dictator president is threatening to rule for life
and today is election day – – – frightening!
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
OKC/ Colorado Election Day COVID Sign Quilt x17
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma & Rocky Mountains, Colorado
2020 Presidential Election Voter Line #4:
I’m not letting you take me anywhere until I vote!
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
The man in the middle of this photograph was waiting in line to vote on
November 3, 2020, still about 200 yards away from his ballot,
when he began to feel faint and had to sit down. Somebody else in line called
emergency and they sent an ambulance and several fire trucks and began
administering aid. As I was leaving the scene I heard the man say,
I’m not letting you take me anywhere until I vote!
Caution: Play is Safe/ Vacant Playgrounds #99
Learning How to Mask Up
Estes Park, Colorado
Vacant Playgrounds
Walden, Colorado
Vacant Playgrounds
Eudora, Kansas
Vacant Playgrounds During Lockdown (b&w&color)
Vacant Playgrounds During Lockdown (b&w)
Caution: Lawrence Lockdown Stoplight Splatter #3
Vacant Playgrounds During Lockdown (b&w&color#1)
Coronavirus Nightmare #100
Coronavirus Nightmare #Six-point-Six Million
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** This collection of 50 selected Gary Mark Smith History in Time (danger street) photographs were made between 1982 and 2014 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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