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Ukraine December 2017 2018 Lviv
Leadpicture: Maria Bakalo (Masha) during a rehearsal of a new performance.
I met Masha in 2016 and revisited her in 2017. Simferopol is her birthplace but she moved to Lviv as cultural life is more developed there....
A contrast between the three houses. Two immaculaly kept in the centre of Gävle and in the middle of Dalarna, the other on the outskirts near a Stora Enso sawmill, derelict and surrounded by junk. The other side of...
Serbia february 2018
When emigrants come back to Serbia this question "why did you not leave" is not uncommon amongst the generation that grew up in the bloody nineties. I ask Rastko Sejic about his experiences. He stayed and runs...
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Belgrade Serbia februari 2018
A relatively warm sunday late afternoon in the centre of Belgrade. Studentski Park is during the week a favourite hang out...
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 gipsy girls circle around me like a...
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....
Stagefright
Ukraine Ternopil November 2018
Years of exercise, discipline and lessons preceded this moment. In only a few minutes your name will resound and all eyes...
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Germany, Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg March 2019
Not a minute is lost, life is taken seriously here. During the last 45 years, I have been in...
All is quiet on the eastern front
Ukraine Donbass February 2019 Slovjansk, Kurakhove, Avdivka, Mariupol.
In the forgotten trenches of Europe, war is grinding into its sixth year. I am in Kurakhove,...
The cockroaches migrate in summer
February 2019 Lviv Ukraine
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
Israel Tel Aviv Jerusalem februari 2019
Who does not want to see Jerusalem just once in his life? It is curiosity that brought me here....
Stagefright
Ukraine Ternopil November 2018
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
Aid Part 1:
Dogs like human feces
“Twelve years ago I visited Chișinău, the capital of Moldova, for the first time. I...
A glass of water for Vasile, ...
Moldova, Cobani October 2018
Aid Part 2: The final destination
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....
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...
Fall down and get up
Serbia februari 2018
I meet Goran Mitrovic in Obenovac, an hour drive from Belgrade. Now 57 his life coincides with the most turbulent periods in...
