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Sleeping dogs, dying pianos and talking buildings.
2023 9 Georgia Tbilisi
They are our friends
Dogs and cats are present in every country, in every city. Where things are not going well, they...
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Buckwheat and red beetroot
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Saint Nicolas song
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Sarajevo marriage
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Along the river it is cooler under the trees in this hot and bustling city where a wolrd war started....
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...
WRC Rally Cup
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...
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...
The invisible and the Samaritans
Scotland, UK, Edinburgh, December 2019
A tale of two cities
The Christmas market in Edinburgh lights up the Princess Street Gardens. It is noisy and busy....
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Sundown North Sea
The Netherlands, Julianadorp. A little insight into the beauty of my own country, just next door.
Saint Nicolas: private small scale charity in Ukraine
Ukraine, Lviv, Drohobych, December 2017
Contrasts in celebration of a children's holiday
The birthday of Saint Nicholas which falls on the 6th December is the biggest...
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...
The hijacking of the Nashy
2021 July Ukraine Uzhgorod Kushnytsia In the hills and valleys of the Carpathian mountains in Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland, and some other countries villagers speak a...
Košice – Ushgorod
Crossing the EU border
Ukriane, Slovakia, Uzhgorod, August 2014
There is airco when the driver feels like it. It is nearly 40 degrees in the bus...
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Maria Bakalo in Lviv
Ukraine, Lviv, December 2017 2018 Lviv
Lead picture: Maria Bakalo (Masha) during a rehearsal of a new performance. I met Masha in 2016 and revisited her...
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Sleeping dogs, dying pianos and talking buildings.
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