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Eric Fichtl

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Thank you for visiting. This website features my photography and writing. Learn a bit more about me.

<p>'Memory' and 'vote blank' – two slogans summarising popular exasperation with the post-dictatorship Argentine political landscape. <br /></p>
PHOTOS

Here is a random sample of my photos. Visit my galleries for many more.


<p>Fields of varying patterns (and crop circles?!) near Stonehenge. </p>
<p>Blinding light forms a sort of cross in one of Moscow's pedestrian underpasses. These tunnels are a consequence of the span of the city's monumental boulevards.<br /></p>
<p>A woman and her children on a backstreet of Tunis's Medina. <br /></p> <p>The date on the wall refers to the Tunisian general election from the previous year, which (unsurprisingly) saw the highly corrupt president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali 're-elected' for a fourth time – with a mere 94.9 percent of the vote. A few years later, Ben Ali's flagrant misrule sparked the Arab Spring that permanently removed him from power.</p>
<p>A weather-worn wooden cross in the British Cemetery on Corfu. </p>
<p>Schoolkids on an outing in Cork.</p>
<p>A view of Wan Chai's verticality with the Wing Tak blocks on Bowrington Road front and centre, and more towers beyond in Causeway Bay.</p>
<p>A waterfall about a day's hike north of Upsete, in the Grånosmyrane reserve in central Norway.</p>
<p>Two jackals go from 'conversation' to chasing each other in an instant.</p>
TEXTS

A lot of what I write professionally carries no by-line. Here are some of the works I have put my name to.

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Other or One of Us? Bulgaria’s Attempt to Assimilate Its Ethnic Turks

In the mid 1980s the Bulgarian Communist Party systematically sought to erase the identity of the largest ethnic minority in the state. Why?
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Looking Back: Seventeen Years Since the El Mozote Massacre

Over 700 defenseless peasants were brutally murdered by a Salvadoran batallion that received U.S. military training and supplies.
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A Beginner’s Guide to Multilateral Lending in the 1990s

A briefing on key terminology and institutions.