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First Person, Noah Balazs

Colby Magazine

It was early morning on the Tabaski holiday in Senegal, where I recently taught first grade at the International School of Dakar. At the home of Almamy Badiane, his sisters and sisters-in-law made preparations for a feast that would last all day and into the night. Venturing into the outdoor kitchen with my dusty Holga medium-format camera, I was not unwelcome, but I knew my place as a guest was beside the host. My own plastic chair was waiting. The result was this image, which appears in a new book of short stories set in West Africa, Everything Is Insha'Allah …

Closer To Home, Edwin J. Torres

Colby Magazine

After Colby, a new perspective

The photographs: Edwin Torres ’12 Documents a Life in the Bronx

A Very Big Save, Gerry Boyle

Colby Magazine

In Washington for a White House internship, Colby hockey goalie Sam Parker ’15 rescues woman from dangerous Potomac River rapids

Mi Familia: Photographer Edwin Torres '12 Focuses On Home, Edwin J. Torres

Colby Magazine

Excerpt from the Colby Magazine online essay “Close to Home."