EVERYMAN		Introduction		Gallery 1		Gallery 2		Gallery 3		Afterword

An Introduction to EVERYMAN

“Everyman is
like all other men,
like some other men,
like no other man.”

                                        —Clyde Kluckhohn

For the last forty years, I have focused my research efforts
upon the search for and documentation of
worldwide vernacular architecture.
In annual travels and fieldwork, I have sought out cultures
where significant quality examples
of folk and indigenous architecture still exist.
While the intent of this formal study has been
to focus sharply upon the fundamental principles of vernacular design,
my repeated visits to intriguing world cultures
has yielded an unanticipated side interest as well:
an intense admiration of and concern for the people
for whom this architecture was built.
EVERYMAN, a product of this latter interest, is a celebration of Man.
The images are chosen
from the markets of Latin America and Northern Africa,
from the fishing and farming villages of China and Mexico,
from the forests of Borneo and Papua New Guinea,
from the aboriginal Outback of Australia,
from the hill tribes of Thailand,
from the mountain peoples of Tibet, Ladakh and Wutaishan,
and from the indigenous tribes of Kenya, Tanzania, Mali and Namibia.
Some posed, others candid,
each photo represents a moment in time,
a hundredth of a second, a click of the shutter.
For me, each is also both an instant shared and a lifelong memory.
EVERYMAN is a mosaic of humanity,
culturally diverse, universally rich, individually unique—
a collection of “all the beautiful strangers” who have graced my travels
and who have graciously shared their character,
their eloquence and their dignity.

James Warfield
December 2004