https://www.bartlettj.com/behindthestories daily 0.75 2025-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68586f93e8fd0647a72ea906/1751316501118-SRW81A6WWL92702D75AN/IMG_3902.jpg Behind the Stories - Fast fashion's graveyard The Atacama Desert in northern Chile has become one of the world’s fastest-growing dumps for discarded clothing. While reporting with photographer Tamara Merino, we spent time with Génesis, who lives in a shack out on the plateau and sorts through the clothes looking for sellable garments (May 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68586f93e8fd0647a72ea906/1751316541891-9B9GW56D084GFZEJ6TBO/IMG_8381.jpg Behind the Stories - Keeping a language alive Celina Varas has lived on the fringes of the Atacama salt flat in northern Chile her whole life. She is one of the last people in the desert to speak Ckunsa, the language of the Lickanantay people (April 2024, shot on 35mm) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68586f93e8fd0647a72ea906/1751316584806-L7WPF05QEE2YG95E7Z0V/23a7094b-2fe9-4f95-b883-6117dab8fa62.jpg Behind the Stories - The blessing and curse of Chile's lithium I have traveled several times to the Atacama salt flat in northern Chile to talk to the communities in the area about how the extraction of lithium for batteries has affected their lives (April 2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68586f93e8fd0647a72ea906/1751316564524-YWY8CU5Z0C7V1LAEZKSK/Image%2B%252818%2529.jpg Behind the Stories - Lesotho's last cave dweller Ntefane Ntefane, 41, is the last cave-dweller in Kome, Lesotho. He was born in a tiny cave under a lip of rock, and has lived there’s his whole life (July 2024, shot on 35mm) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68586f93e8fd0647a72ea906/1751316648019-3QK8CSLXUH9QQZ80QTMS/011_Tamara%2BMerino-%2BCape%2BFroward%2BChile.jpg Behind the Stories - Protecting Patagonia In November 2024, I hiked to the southernmost tip of South America with conservationist Kristine Tompkins. Cape Froward will become Chile’s 47th national park, the latest tranche of Patagonia’s peaks, glaciers and icy fjords to be granted protected status (November 2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68586f93e8fd0647a72ea906/1751316684286-B6JLQ6BPQ9COID5S57HK/Image%2B%252883%2529.jpg Behind the Stories - Living in Petra's caves Mthayil Samahin is one of the last Bedouin from the Bdoul tribe living within the UNESCO World Heritage site in Petra, southern Jordan. She lives in a cave with a tall Nabatean façade carved above the entrance and the remains of what was likely a wine tank due two millennia ago (August 2024, shot on 35mm) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68586f93e8fd0647a72ea906/1766496143707-A9XI13FZSK0AA2KMOI3E/_DSC1507+copia.jpg Behind the Stories - Lesotho's last resort Ntefane Ntefane is the last person living beneath the vast lip of rock the locals at Kome cave village call the mahalapane, meaning the roof of the mouth. The rock is streaked with lichen, washed clean by the rain and storms, and there are glass-like, obsidian-black deposits on the underside of the rock from centuries of camp fires lit beneath it (July 2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68586f93e8fd0647a72ea906/1766496679345-6RPD7CNUP40QOAEHTXE7/AA014.jpg Behind the Stories - A pianist's fight for her island's future Mahani Teave is a world-renowned concert pianist from Rapa Nui. But her island is slowly washing into the ocean, and its culture under threat from overtourism and modernity. Her Toki music school is trying to protect the island’s culture and music from extinction (August 2025, shot on 35mm) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68586f93e8fd0647a72ea906/1766496806261-3HR83V0WA3AORJTN6SGL/Copy%2Bof%2BIMG_8404%2B2.jpg Behind the Stories - Living underground in Tunisia I spent many hours teaching 11-year-old Amar the Latin alphabet while he attempted to teach me the names of animals in Arabic (July 2023) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68586f93e8fd0647a72ea906/1766496577831-V45125QD427ZZBBP23DJ/IMG_1241.jpeg Behind the Stories - The last Kawésar fisherman I went out to fish for Chilean sea bass with Reinaldo Caro, the last of the Indigenous Kawésqar fishermen navigating the fjords and inlets of southern Patagonia (November 2024, shot on 35mm) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68586f93e8fd0647a72ea906/1766497224049-I5PA1AHIQ9JOPIQY2G5F/_DSC2583+copia.jpg Behind the Stories - Capadocia's caves Reporting from central Turkey’s soft sandstone landscape, where we were served baked potatoes and sweet red tea in every cave home we entered (December 2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68586f93e8fd0647a72ea906/1766496843812-C88GJUI421EO4WWV8NI0/AA022.jpg Behind the Stories - Footsteps in the sand Producer Nate Dappen and I trekked to the summit of the world’s largest urban dune in Iquique, northern Chile (December 2024, shot on 35mm) https://www.bartlettj.com/about-intro daily 0.75 2025-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56e049e08a65e26059119cd5/1460489042652-1Y6DERCYU4NPNC9UJSTP/EmptyName-48.jpg About Intro https://www.bartlettj.com/about daily 0.75 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68586f93e8fd0647a72ea906/22e6eb0f-7d2e-4c6d-8ddd-96c710562f7d/IMG_3906.jpg About - Make it stand out Reporting for National Geographic in Chile’s Atacama Desert (ph. 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