From the wayback machine.. I got a Flickr Pro account earlier this month, and so I've been going back through all of my photos and uploading them in high res.
I took a short series of photos at the 2002 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, and I am still inspired by them today. The theme of that year's festival was the Silk Road, so various cultures from Central Asia were represented. I still worked on the Mall at that point, so every one of my lunch breaks for the whole two week festival was spent wandering around the tents or listening to the concerts.
My favorite tent was the Fiber Arts tent, where they had master weavers from India and Afghanistan (and I think Morocco?) demonstrating their craft. And when I say craft, I mean it with a capital C, because these men (and women) were amazing.
