Jeffrey Ladd: The Awful German Language Parade's End Native communities from the Atlantic

Native communities from the Atlantic Coast to the Mississippi Valley suffered catastrophic death tolls because of smallpox

Here two doctors who have returned from Africa reveal the true cost of their failure to combat a terrible and frightening disease

It tells the compelling story of the families who worked diligently and proudly through successes and failures -- including droughts

to engaging with deities and ancestors through prayer and offerings

stars a young concert violinist named Jeremy Webb

Jeffrey Ladd: The Awful German Language Parade's End Native communities from the AtlanticAn ex pat's photographic homage to the dissonances of word and image In 2011 the American photographer and Errata Books publisher Jeffrey Ladd (born 1968) moved to Cologne, Germany, and began photographing his surroundings while learning the basics of the German language. In the process, he collected lists of interesting German vocabulary words (professions, places, things, common terms and outdated terms), which he juxtaposes with his black and white