Rosalind Fox Solomon

In this capacity, she visited communities throughout the Southern United States, recruiting families to host international guests and interact with other cultures in a personal way.

Subsequently, in her work for USAID, Solomon traveled to historically black colleges in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee where she spoke to students and faculty about overseas employment opportunities.

[citation needed] In 1968 Solomon's volunteer work with the Experiment in International Living brought her to Japan where she stayed with a family near Tokyo.

[12] Her interest in how people cope with adversity, led her to witness a shaman's rites and a funeral and made photographs in Easter processions.

She also photographed people of a subsistence economy surviving the extremes of life through Catholic, Evangelist, and Indigenous rites.

[14] With a fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies, in 1981 Solomon began photographing festival rites in India.

She found an expression of female energy and power in the forms of the goddess figures created in the sculptors' communities of Kolkata (Calcutta).

[16] In 1988 Solomon's interest in race relations and ethnic violence, took her to Northern Ireland, Zimbabwe and South Africa.

She was photographing Palestinians in Jenin, and happened to be only a few minutes away when Israeli–Palestinian actor and director of The Freedom Theatre, Juliano Mer-Khamis, was gunned down in April 2011.