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Eric Fichtl
<p>A woman waits at a level crossing in Buenos Aires.</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>Snow, cold, and the early hour make for sparse traffic on Manhattan's Third Avenue.</p>
<p>An announcement board on a disused platform at Ostkreuz station, Berlin.</p>
<p>Builders on a scaffold working on restorations in the Rock of Cashel complex.</p>
<p>Two fishermen collect a trap, with the crustaceans inside doomed to a dinner plate that evening.</p>
<p>Red berries and black spikes outside a house near Highgate Cemetery, London.</p>
<p>An esoteric message painted on the side of a truck in São Paulo, Brazil.</p>
<p>A street in San Telmo wakes up with a bit of a hangover.</p>
<p>Vibrant, bold leaves in the rainforest grounds of the Forest Research Institute Malaysia, just outside Kuala Lumpur.</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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The Massacre at Betoyes

An armed group attacked the indigenous Guahibo community at Betoyes. Who was it?
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On Nury Vittachi's 'North Wind'

Hong Kong writer Vittachi examines pressure on free speech during the 1997 handover from Britain to China