Email photos@tracybarbutes.com for licensing. "Behind the Magic: Celebrating Black Women and Their Hair" is a long-term project supported by the Eyes On Main Street photo residency program in Wilson, North Carolina.

Email photos@tracybarbutes.com for licensing. Saving Sri Lanka's Street Dogs I traveled to Sri Lanka’s hill country seeking stories of women who pursued non-traditional roles in this largely Buddhist country. I discovered Eva Ruppel who is sharing her home with approximately 170 rescued dogs. The rescued animals roam her fenced property on the outskirts of Kandy, interacting in small packs in multiple gated areas throughout the property and inside her home. Ruppel created Tikiri Trust, with the financial assistance of her father, to rescue and re-home Sri Lanka's street dogs

Email photos@tracybarbutes.com for licensing. This is an evergreen collection of some of my current favorite images from "my backyard" on Sierra Miwok lands: Yosemite National Park and the Sierra Nevada mountains ... featuring the Ahwahnee Hotel, Yosemite Falls, El Capitan (El Cap) (To-tock-ah-noo-lah), Sentinel Rock, Merced Grove, Great Grey Owl, Half Dome, Merced River, Cathedral Peak, etc.