Stories

Carefully curated stories; travels, places, inspiring people and events all over the kozmos; still, in motion and in echo.

Eleanor Ambos: An Empire Built on Playing House

Barry EganNovember 26, 2017

Eleanor Ambos: An empire built on playing house: how imagination can change your situation. Eleanor Ambos is an unlikely tycoon. Since arriving in New York from her native Germany at age 20, she has transformed a modest interior-design business into... Read More.

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WWF: World Tiger Day Campaign

Barry EganAugust 11, 2017

From Shere Khan in The Jungle Book to The Tiger Who Came to Tea, tigers play a very prominent part in our culture. But there are now fewer than 4,000 tigers left in the wild, owing to a brutal trafficking trade and environmental destruction. The sta... Read More.

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Ghosts of the Arctic: Searching for Polar Bears

Barry EganAugust 4, 2017

Ghosts of the Arctic was the type of passion project that my boyhood dreams were made of. Our goal was to venture out into the beautiful frozen expanse of Svalbard, in winter, to search and document polar bears. During the shoot we experienced tempe... Read More.

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Hippie Trail: A Brief History of the Travel Pioneers

Barry EganJuly 26, 2017

In the 1960s and 70s, with free love coursing through the air, hippies traveled overland from Europe to Turkey and through Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal and India, the route called Hippie Trail. Hippie Trail: Hippies – the pioneers of so much o... Read More.

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Farmer and the Valley Rebels

Barry EganJune 19, 2017

The Valley Rebels: Meet Cédric Herrou, a farmer defying the law to ease the path of refugees across Europe. Some see him as heroic, others want him prosecuted. Herrou simply sees it as his duty to offer assistance. Cédric Herrou is a farmer who supp... Read More.

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Hong Kong’s Last Neon Lights

Barry EganJune 15, 2017

Neon is to Hong Kong as red phone booths are to London and fog is to San Francisco. When night falls, reds and blues and other hues cast a hazy glow over a city illuminated by tens of thousands of neon signs. But many of them are going dark, replaced... Read More.

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The Last Days of Peter Bergmann

Barry EganJune 11, 2017

In 2009, a man arrived in an Irish town with a plan to disappear forever. In 2009, a grey-haired man arrived by bus in the seaport town of Sligo in Ireland. Under the name Peter Bergmann, he checked into a hotel and carried three large pieces of lug... Read More.

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Finding Joe Joseph Campbell The Hero's Journey

Finding Joe: The Timeless Tale of the Hero’s Journey

Barry EganJune 6, 2017

Finding Joe is an exploration of famed Mythologist Joseph Campbell's studies and their continuing impact on our culture. Through interviews with visionaries from a variety of fields interwoven with enactments of classic tales by a sweet and motley gr... Read More.

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution

Barry EganJune 1, 2017

Fourth Industrial Revolution. Ubiquitous, mobile supercomputing. Artificially-intelligent robots. Self-driving cars. Neuro-technological brain enhancements. Genetic editing. The evidence of dramatic change is all around us and it’s happening at expon... Read More.

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HUMAN: A Life-Changing Documentary

Barry EganMay 30, 2017

‘HUMAN’ is a documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand that explores the human condition. Weaving the stories of more than 2000 women and men across 60 countries, this film has captured deeply personal and emotional accounts of the things that both unite a... Read More.

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