Kardash Fashion Minsk
Belarus December 2017 Minsk
Customer at Kardash fashion gallery in Minsk Korpus Kulturtsentr. The centre hosts a number of small enterprises including a designer fashion...
Uljana and Rostyk: Sam Smak natural bread backery
Lviv, Ukraine December 2017
Rostyk and Uljana have had many jobs. Rostyk made music freelance and studied at University but at the same time traded...
Saint Nicolas: private small scale charity in Ukraine
Ukraine, Lviv, Drohobych, December 2017
Contrasts in celebration of a children's holiday
The birthday of Saint Nicholas which falls on the 6th December is the biggest...
Soviet style corruption still prevails at state university in Lviv.
Ukraine, Lviv, December 2017
Exam time at Ivano Franko State University Lviv: a classroom where students are divided into two rows and a lecturer who’s...
Minsk: Sasha and Korpus kulturtsenter
Living in Belarus
Belarus, December 2017 Nearly three decades ago the Sovjet Union disintegrated, fragmenting into a multitude of states, each developing their own way. I...
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...
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...
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...
Beachclub Samotrakhi Greece
Tourism and the EU
June 2011
More than 30 years ago my wife and I had a wonderfull time camping on this relatively unknown Greek island....
Kovbasa krovjanka and farsherovanii perets in Drohobich
Ukrainian hospitality
Drohobich, Ukraine, August 2016
The Ukrainian language is not easy to master but I have decided to learn its basics, at least. In western...
Brains but no work in Sibiu Rumania
A new Euro generation tries to build a life
I am on the train from Brasov to Sibiu, in the middle of Rumania. The weather...
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....
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...
Košice – Ushgorod
Crossing the EU border
Ukriane, Slovakia, Uzhgorod, August 2014
There is airco when the driver feels like it. It is nearly 40 degrees in the bus...
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...
Andrea at the Gara in Brašov Rumania
Roma and Sinti in Rumania
November 2016
Andrea asks me habla Espagnol? She gestures: she is hungry. The three gypsy girls circle around me like a...
Frontex Ventspils Latvia
From the Russian border to Ventspils
Latvia, Ventspils, August 2012
At the age of 8, she already realised there where only two options. Do what all...
Svetlana, Olga and Diana, Platskart
Railroads are the arteries of Ukraine Western Ukraine, August 2016
“No time to print your ticket!” the platinum blond station attendant tells me through the small...
Marcel, Kullen Dalarna Sweden
Sweden, Nyhammar, November 2017
Marcel Schruijer from St.Maartensvlotbrug, the Netherlands in front of his new home in Kullen, near Nyhammar in Dalarna, Sweden. He moved...