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Eric Fichtl
<p>Children playing along Dili's waterfront after the daily rainstorm.</p>

Thanks for visiting. This website features my photography, writing, and a bit about me.

PHOTOS

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


<p>A detail of figures at the Temple of the Dawn, or Wat Arun Ratchawararam Ratchaworawihan, in Bangkok.</p>
<p>A not entirely reassuring sign in a snake pit at the Instituto Butantã, a research centre famed for its anti-venom work. The scale isn't evident, but these snakes were all more than a metre long. And for good measure, there was another pit for poisonous snakes nearby.</p>
<p>A man bails out his boat after a sudden rain shower.</p>
<p>Berlin's Olympic Stadium was roofless when it hosted the 1936 Games, but during renovations in 2004 a seemingly floating roof was added to cover all 74,475 seats in the stadium (which, despite its age, still has Germany's highest all-seater capacity). The roof conceals clever lighting that creates no discernible shadows on the pitch.</p>
<p>A helicopter whisks a VIP over the endless skyline of São Paulo during one of its whiskey-hued afternoons. There's no place quite like this city.</p>
<p>Interesting arches over a passageway in central Rome.<br /></p>
<p>Rain softens the look of Kamergerskiy Pereulok, a small pedestrian street in central Moscow.</p>
<p>Commuters emerge from one of Chicago's metro stations into a dark night.</p>
TEXTS

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

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Let Them Eat Cake… The End of the Tortilla Subsidy in Mexico

The cost of that most Mexican of basic foodstuffs jumped by 25% as the government repealed price control legislation.
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Uribe Administration Impeding Foreign Press

The new president moves to limit any potentially damaging reports appearing in the foreign press.
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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.