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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...
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...
WORD CUP 2016
Civil support for ZSU (Ukrainian Army)
2023 11 Ukraine Tyachiv Drohobych Lviv Misha has been at the frontline for nearly a year....
Would you like to live here? Coming home after 150 years.
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Påsk in Saltsjöbaden
March 2009 Saltsjöbaden near Stockholm Sweden My mother made this she says "min mamma gjorde det...
WRC Rally Cup
Zirka
February 2020 Lviv Ukraine What did you do in the evening after a working day when...
Hello stranger I am having fun
Serbia, Belgrade, February 2018
A relatively warm Sunday late afternoon in the centre of Belgrade. Studentski...
Svetlana, Olga and Diana, Platskart
Railroads are the arteries of Ukraine Western Ukraine, August 2016
“No time to print your ticket!” the...
CYCLING TOUR
Liepaja Latvia
August 2011
My son Peter and I arrive late at night in Liepaja after a long busride from Klaipeda (formerly called Memel in German) in...
Entrepreneurship in Lviv: Natalya and Vitaly
A start up business in leather goods in Lviv
Ukraine, Lviv, December 2017
Natalya teaches at University and gives language lessons online. She was my teacher...
Hospitality and Inequality
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...
Turkish barbershop Minsk
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...
Dance
December 2017 Dance studio rehearsal in Minsk
It is early in the morning, around 8 o'clock but this dancer can use the studio of her...
TENNIS
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...
Fall down and get up
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...
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Invandrare
“The little swelling in my neck bothered me for some time already but my colleagues said it was nothing. I work in a hospital and they are doctors so I thought...