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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...

Serbia, Vukićevica Village, Grabovac, February 2018, At the first handshake, Aleksandar Velimirovic explains to me the philosophy of their project. For him, it is not...

Serbia, Obenovac, February 2018 I meet Goran Mitrovic in Obenovac, an hour drive from Belgrade. Now 57 his life coincides with the most turbulent periods...

Belarus December 2017 Turkish barbershop in Minsk I had a thourough Turkish make over here including waxing my ears and nose. Painfull but effective. This...

Finland, Kajaani, June 2008 Estonian cook making me dinner on late arrival in Kajaani, in the middle of Finland. A lot of Estonians work in...

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...

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....

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...

2021 August Hungary Sátoraljaújhely (Ujhel) Shifting borders, mass murder, deportation, forced migration; It is impossible to travel through eastern Europe without realising what happened in...