Ireland. Red Heads, 1994.

“Lee Johnson, left, with his pony Gypsy in the Clondalkin district of Dublin. Says Abell of this photograph which made the cover of the September 1994 issue of National Geographic, ““They didn’t know National Geographic– clearly I was an American, I had a camera. And courteously, in a state of pure bewilderment, they stopped, stood behind their pony, and stared me down. I couldn’t get them not to stare at me. So I composed the picture and I’m waiting, but nothing’s gonna happen. And then some friend of theirs went by in a car, honked the horn, and shouted. At that moment a blast of wind hit the horse and hit their hair, a little bit, not much– and they are looking off camera to see who’s shouting at them. Click.”