Sam Wolson

"I don't even know anybody who has ever been to Paraguay!" exclaimed a Colombian friend when I mentioned to him that I had just visited the South American country a few weeks prior.

My friend is not alone in dismissing "The Other Guay." This tiny, land-locked country, surrounded by...

Written by Christina Gossmann. Photos by Sam Wolson

Across the sea of long-haired heads and peace-forming hands stuck into the air, I see a sign that stands out above the crowd. "Se perdeu?" (Got Lost?) it says on one side; "encontram-se aqui " (Meet Here) on the other. Ingenious....

A dozen glitter-faced fairies, dwarfs and a dead bride line up by the seaside to take a pee. No wonder, given all that beer they've just had. Some pee free-handedly, some awkwardly squatting behind a rock, most still swaying...

As thousands gathered in Durban, South Africa, to confront issues of climate change at this year's COP 17, life around the conference in Durban continued as usual. Local fisherman cast their lines, both day and night, at a pier just outside the city center. Blissfuly ignorant of the decisions being...

Subways are spaces that are often overlooked. Stowed away beneath the ground, these transportation networks can be isolating, foreign and surreal. People usually escape their physical environment through books, iPods, cells phones, newspapers or any means of mental distraction. These photos, taken in the Washington, D.C. subway, look at...