Gary Mark Smith, 56, has been photographing the streets of the world full time since 1978, 69 countries so far. A two-time American Photo Magazine International Competition winner, Smith specializes in documenting the poetry of everyday life on the global street, and in an attempt to be truely global, is notorious for sending himself on assignment to some of the most dangerous streets in the world. He has published four previous photography books, and his first, Molten Memoirs - - about a community of people in the Caribbean in the late 1990s refusing to flee an erupting volcano - - was read on tape by Audio Reader as a Book for the Blind. Smith's work can be found on his popular online website and in 17 permanent art collections on four continents, including the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, the Montserrat National Trust and the New Orleans Museum of Art. His research papers and most of his negatives, field notes and travel paraphernalia gathered during his far flung career have been archived at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas.