Charlie Hamilton James: The Disgusting Disease Diaries, Part One

The Proof blog takes you behind the scenes to tell the stories of what’s glamorous, and what’s definitely not, about being on assignment for National Geographic. In this two-part tale, photographer and documentarian Charlie Hamilton James tells the story

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In this two-part tale, photographer and documentarian Charlie Hamilton James tells the story of contracting not one, but two, rare and repulsive maladies while traveling on assignment in the Amazon—a botfly, and the flesh-eating disease leishmaniasis.