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Crossing the EU border
August 2014
There is airco when the driver feels like it. It is nearly 40 degrees in the bus from Košice in Slovakia to Uzhgorod Ukraine. This will be my first time to cross a EU landborder...
Finland June 2008 Kajaani
Estonian cook making me dinner on late arrival in Kajaani, in the middel of Finland. A lot of Estonians work in Finland as the language is related and Finland is far more prosperous. My friend had...
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 values, my view on normality...
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Bow strings from Simone in Amsterdam
Destiny
September 2016
Simone looks up from her work to me through the open door of her workshop. She just finished her rolled cigaret. It is...
Because it is possible
The Netherlands IJmuiden October 2018
Aid Part 1:
Dogs like human feces
“Twelve years ago I visited Chișinău, the capital of Moldova, for the first time. I...
Contact Improvisation Dance Minsk
Minsk December 10th 2017
Studio of Вероника Чарковская Veronika Charkovskaya see her FB page
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Dancers Alexander and Catherine
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Sarajevo marriage
We will not go back permanently
Along the river it is cooler under the trees in this hot and bustling city where a wolrd war started....
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What is normal?
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All is quiet on the eastern front
Ukraine Donbass February 2019 Slovjansk, Kurakhove, Avdivka, Mariupol.
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The cockroaches migrate in summer
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Remember your years as a student? The best years of your life they say. A little spartan here and there but...
In Israel everyone comes from somewhere
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Stagefright
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Years of exercise, discipline and lessons preceded this moment. In only a few minutes your name will resound and all eyes...
Because it is possible
The Netherlands IJmuiden October 2018
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Dogs like human feces
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A glass of water for Vasile, ...
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Buckwheat and red beetroot
The elderly couple lives in just one room. The rectangular structure of concrete...
To wake up in another country in your own bed.
Estonia July 2018
In your own house, in your own bed: in the morning you wake up and suddenly you are in a different country....
