The future of the Polonyna
2021 7 Ukraine: Kryvorivnya, Verkhovyna, Rakhiv, Ust Chorna. “I would like to combine two worlds for myself. One world centres around keeping the cows, how to raise our calve for example. I want to learn...
Angela Šutka Macedonia
The only Roma town in Macedonia
Macedonia, Skopje, August 2012
It is not easy to find the right bus to my destination Šutka. The signs are confusing and the name does not appear on the notice...
Przemyśl, Weronika and Mikal
European youth
January 2016
Przemyśl is a sleepy bordertown in the east of Poland, just a few kilometers away from the Ukrainian border. The river that splits the town in two halves was once the border between...
In Israel everyone comes from somewhere
Israel Tel Aviv Jerusalem February 2019 Who does not want to see Jerusalem just once in his life? It is curiosity that brought me here. Would Israel be like what I imagined based on the...
Roots and identity, tradition and change
March 2018 Taroudant/Marrakech Morocco
In the Sidi Ayoub area of the Medina (the town inside the city walls) of Marrakesch Abderrazzak El Maana unexpectedly addresses me in my own language with a charming southern...
Entrepreneurship in Lviv: Natalya and Vitaly
A start up business in leather goods in Lviv
Ukraine, Lviv, December 2017
Natalya teaches at University and gives language lessons online. She was my teacher from whom I learned the basics in Ukrainian. Teaching, however,...
Olexandra, a village near Dikanka
Plains near Poltava
Ukraine, October 2016
Sunflower fields are abundant around Poltava, Ukraine. It is an important local industry and has been for almost a century. It is autumn now so the remains of the plants...
Bow strings from Simone in Amsterdam
Destiny
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2016
Simone looks up from her work to me through the open door of her workshop. She just finished her rolled cigarette. It is a perfect hot early September afternoon in...
Saul in Krakow
Auschwitz
January 2016
My head is still full of my visit to Birkenau. What most impressed me was the vastness of the camp and what meager protection the barracks gave so death resulted also from just...
Hospitality and Inequality
Pakistan, Lahore, September 2019
What is normal?
This question has been swirling in my mind for the two weeks I had the privilege to spend in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Confronted with a different society with different...