Ron Hoffer
Ron is a recently retired specialist on international water and environmental management for the World Bank and U.S. EPA. He has worked on project sites around the world, and on policy initiatives with the United Nations and regional investment banks and partnerships. Photography has always been crucial to communicating the details, successes and challenges. He continues to enjoy taking photos around DC and on personal travel, using a variety of film and digital equipment. His work in Central and Eastern Europe is captured in the 2020 photo memoir "From the Bronx to Berlin and Beyond." A wider selection of images is on Instagram (@ronhofferphoto), SmugMug (https://rnhphoto.smugmug.com) and his website (www.ronhoffer.com)
Electronic images
Tajikistan, 2009
A Tajik boy proudly shows off an eggplant from a communal garden, surrounded by family and members of his community.
This photo was taken at a World Bank project site aimed at fostering good agricultural land management to foster livelihoods and reduce the impacts from climate change. The hills in the background were denuded from over-grazing.
This image also appears in the exhibit's print display.
More about this photo: https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/tajikistan
First snow of 2022
Three young men enjoying a gorgeous snow day in NW Washington DC this past January.
A grab shot taken on black and white film with my venerable mid-1980s Hasselblad 500 C/M medium format and 60mm lens.
This image also appears in the exhibit's print display.
Garage, Lincoln Road, Miami
A parking garage designed by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron graces the western end of Lincoln Road mall in Miami Beach. Lovely lighting as night falls.
Newport Oregon, June 2022
A young boy adds an interesting detail to the foreground of a classic beach sunset picture