When I began photographing more than forty years ago, I was inspired by a world still rich in ethnic and cultural diversity. By the end of the twentieth century — by the close of the millennium — much of that diversity had begun to dissolve, reshaped and often erased by the forces of globalization.
It was in response to this loss that, over the past twenty years, I devoted my work to exploring the edges of the humanized world: places where life still unfolded in a pre-globalized state. These were the world’s last frontiers — natural borders, where existence remained governed by the power of the environment and ancient rhythms of survival; and artificial, political borders, shaped by history, conflict, and centuries of human tension.
In these marginal spaces, humanity persists in forms that resist uniformity. Last Frontiers is a visual exploration of those fragile thresholds where culture, environment, and history still define daily life.
