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- A sufi walks through a graveyard in Omdurman towards the tomb of Sheikh Hamad El Nil. Sufi followers of the Quadriya sect Sufi gather there on Friday afternoons for Zikr.
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- A street-merchant sells cell phone minutes in northern Omdurman.
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- If you can’t afford a train ticket from Khartoum to Wadi-Halfa there are always places to hide from the conductor, including the roof.
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- The trip through the desert of northern Sudan is slow and dusty with a few stops at small villages.
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- From the now defunct train between Khartoum and Wadi Halfa.
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- A portrait painter exhibits examples beside the road. Including portraits of Arab leaders, business men, and one portrait of Chinese president Hu Jintao inside a map of Sudan. Many of Sudan’s public-works projects and roads come from chinese investment while a third to a half of Sudan’s half-million barrel a day crude oil ends up in China.
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- Sudan only has two flavors of hotels, the high-end five star places that rival western capitals in opulence and cost, and the more common lokandas where everyone gets a bed with a good view of the stars and stores their toothbrushes in the wiring.
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- Donkey in Merowi, Northern Sudan.
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- A small group of darfurians made a dry riverbed in Omdurman their home with some sticks and cloth. To make money they reform empty USAID cans into coffee stoves.
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- A small group of darfurians made a dry riverbed in Omdurman their home with some sticks and cloth. To make money they reform empty USAID cans into coffee stoves.
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- A small group of darfurians made a dry riverbed in Omdurman their home with some sticks and cloth. To make money they reform empty USAID cans into coffee stoves.
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- A small group of darfurians made a dry riverbed in Omdurman their home with some sticks and cloth. To make money they reform empty USAID cans into coffee stoves.
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- A small group of darfurians made a dry riverbed in Omdurman their home with some sticks and cloth. To make money they reform empty USAID cans into coffee stoves.
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- A small group of darfurians made a dry riverbed in Omdurman their home with some sticks and cloth. To make money they reform empty USAID cans into coffee stoves.
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- Sufi followers of the Quadriya sect gather at the tomb of Sheikh Hamad El Nil on Friday afternoons for Zikr.
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- As people from all over Sudan move into Khartoum vast tracts of land are opened up for housing but the houses are built slowly and sporadically. In southern khartoum one large construction area is overrun with herders and their herds.
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- A street in northern Omdurman is almost dead during Ramadan.
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- A street in the market of northern Omdurman.
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- A college student brushes his teeth.
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- A shirt dries on the line inside the courtyard of a southern Omdurman house.
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- He went to an agriculture college near his small village but has dreams of starting a business in America.
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- The shell of a building makes a storefront for cheap food and hashish near Merrowi, northern Sudan.
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- The view from the backyard of a house in Omdurman. The mud brick supports satellite TV, and many of the days are wiled away with pirated DVDs and cell phone connected internet access.
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- An empty chair at a Ramadan breakfast festival in Omdurman Ahlia University.
Most of the news from Sudan is about the outlying provinces, Darfur, and the south, but the new Sudan can be seen in Khartoum.
I traveled to Sudan for two months, making connections and exploring the story of Chinese money and influence in the country. In the end I felt those photos weren’t strong enough and edited together this collection showing the cultural, global, and historic confluence that Khartoum is at.