I am Jibaro Borinqueno by Jose Juniel Rivera-Negron
This photo was taken while visiting my beautiful Island of Borinquén that is called now Puerto Rico. Most of the tittle is in Spanish because it wouldn't sound the same in English, but' Jíbaro' is a farmer who grows in his own farm and 'Borinqueño' is also called a person that was born in Puerto Rico. This was at my grandmother's work field where I spent most of my childhood. I asked my uncle if he could pose a little with his "machete" in one hand and a whole branch of green bananas on his other. A very traditional phoyograph of a Jibaro Borinqueño.
Nasi Uduk
Nasi Uduk is a Betawi style rice cooked in coconut milk. The rice is soaked in coconut milk instead of water, along with spices such as Indonesian bay leaf, greater galangal, ginger, and lemongrass to add aroma. The coconut milk and spices imparts a rich taste to the rice.
Varanasi Flower Girls by Shikchit KhanalThe River’s Quiet Morning
I often find myself wandering the labyrinthine alleys of my own memory, tracing the steps of cities I have never visited but feel I know by heart. There is a particular stillness that arrives just before the world fully wakes, a fragile window…