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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>A man crosses an elevated walkway where a notice awaits him.</p>
<p>A sweeping view at Dolphin Head, on South Carolina's Hilton Head Island. </p>
<p>A pilgrimage chapel lashed with rain on Mount Ramelau (Tatamailau), the highest peak in Timor-Leste (and through the wonders of colonialism, also once 'in' Portugal). </p>
<p>A female Steenbok looks up from browsing for tasty grass. Steenboks are a small species of antelope. </p>
<p>An interplay of triangles from the 19th and 21st centuries in Cork.</p>
<p>Some buildings in the Kremlin compound feature bricks bearing the stamp of their manufacturer, Central something something something...</p>
<p>A band of musicians performs in a churchyard in Puebla, Mexico.</p>
<p>Rowers power through the waters of Köpenick.<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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Araucan Nightmare: Life and Death in Tame

An intimate portrait of a small town at war in Colombia's east.
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A Beginner’s Guide to Multilateral Lending in the 1990s

A briefing on key terminology and institutions.
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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'.