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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...
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 seemed to do: drink and sink back or excel at school and escape. She was...
Estonia, Narva, Paldinski, July 2018
In your own house, in your own bed: in the morning you wake up and suddenly you are in a different country. This experience seems impossible but it happened to many.
The dissolution of the Soviet...
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Estonia, Narva, Paldinski, July 2018
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Kovbasa krovjanka and farsherovanii perets in Drohobich
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Drohobich, Ukraine, August 2016
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