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Eric Fichtl
<p>Trees peek through the mist in Val di Funes – a great welcome for a day of hiking!<br /></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>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>An evocative underpass in Dortmund.</p>
<p>A view of spires and towers in Quedlinburg on a winter's day.</p>
<p>Two zebras almost seem to hug. Or is it a defensive posture?</p>
<p>A characterful old house in the Hanseatic city of Stralsund.</p>
<p>Palms reach for the little fluffy clouds above Singapore.</p>
<p>Morning mist hangs in the trees of the Val di Funes.<br /></p>
<p>An almost monochromatic seascape.<br /></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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On Jacobo Timerman's 'Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number'

A powerful memoir of the Argentine junta's crimes, ripe with lessons for our present period of strongmen and 'friendly fascism'.
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Not this time, FIFA

On boycotting the 2022 World Cup.
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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?