Carsten ten Brink

Carsten ten Brink is a writer, artist and photographer. He was born in Germany and raised in Australia, Japan and the United Kingdom, where he studied. After obtaining his Bachelors and Masters at Cambridge, he initially worked in the private sector. He has since studied creative writing, photography and Latin American history, politics and culture in London. He travels extensively and has been in Latin America more than twenty times. He has worked as a volunteer conservationist, archaeologist and vulcanologist and has put up his tent in deserts, mountain valleys and rainforests. His photographs have been viewed over 30,000,000 times on the internet and have been published widely. Next to short prose projects, he is currently editing a political novel and preparing a book about New Guinea.

The Nicotine Solution

We were already deep in the Amazonian rainforest, in the borderland between Peru and Brazil, based in a camp somewhere along an unnamed tributary of another tributary of the Rio Javari that marks the border, and that morning we rose early to travel by canoe yet deeper into the forest. Local hunter Alejandro had encountered a large adult anaconda and was willing to take us there.

The Red Wheelbarrow

Something was different when Danny closed the wooden picket gate behind him at Aunt June’s. The first thing he noticed was an odd smell, something mixed in with the pines along the path.

Her Prime Conjecture1

‘Lasagne. It’s already in the oven, Mom,’ Cissy said. ‘And then I have a lot of papers to mark tonight.’ One and a half lies in that answer, but they were only white lies.
‘Don’t eat too much of it, honey,’ her mother said. ‘I know how rich your lasagne is. You can freeze the rest.’
‘Yes, Mom.’
‘Your father had a good week. The Chess Team reached the Third Round.’
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