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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...
February 2020 Lviv Ukraine
What did you do in the evening after a working day when you were 24? Possibly you were just too tired to do anything as you just started your first demanding job. Or you spent what...
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 is cold and there is some snow. The train slides slowly through the open landscape...
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Sweden
A contrast between the three houses. Two immaculaly kept in the centre of Gävle and in the middle of Dalarna, the other on the...
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...
Why did you not leave?
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...
Euro-youth in Gävle Sweden
To build a life
Ukraine, Gävle, November 2017
In the centre of Gävle, the gateway city to the big North of Sweden the sun is only...
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All is quiet on the eastern front
Ukraine Donbas February 2019 Slovyansk, Kurakhove, Avdivka, Mariupol.
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In the forgotten trenches of Europe, war is grinding into its sixth...
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Lviv, Ukraine February 2019
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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....
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...