I’m an independent journalist whose work appears in The Washington Post, Wine Spectator, The Dallas News, The Sydney Morning Herald and other international publications. I’ve lived and reported from throughout the world, including Australia, South America, Europe and the United States, and I’m currently based in Vancouver, Canada.
I’ve written on everything from gauchos in Argentina to undocumented immigration in the U.S. and international banking in Canada. If there’s a thread running through my work, it’s a love of international places and an obsession with living other cultures, other languages and other people’s lives – then putting that into words and pictures.
The site
This site is called Independent Journalism. I tried to choose those words carefully. By independent, I mean not just that the reporting is unbiased but that it stems from independent thinking. I aim to tell stories that haven’t been told before, in ways that haven’t been tried. By journalism, I mean that what I do is serious and rigorous, even though I try not to take myself too seriously.
A vendor trolls Ipanema Beach in Rio.
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A little on where I’m coming from: I grew up in New York and studied literature at Cornell University, where I discovered Walt Whitman. For several years, I taught English abroad and traveled – in Spain first, then in Ecuador and Argentina. Later, I earned a master’s in journalism and filed feature stories for daily newspapers in North Carolina. Then, I began to travel and write as a career, beginning at the southern tip of South America and working my way up to Canada. Along the way, I trained in digital photography. I often shoot for my stories, and all of the photos featured on the site are my own.
Oscar Pereyra, a gaucho farm hand, plays guitar at El Ombu estancia outside of Buenos Aires.
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