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To wake up in another country in your own bed.
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...
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...
WORD CUP 2016
Dominica, where nature rules
The Caribbeans and certainly Dominicans take their Sunday very seriously. Religion is everywhere and in all thinkable varieties. Methodist, baptist, seventh day adventists, catholics,...
Svetlana, Olga and Diana, Platskart
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“No time to print your ticket!” the platinum blond station attendant tells me through the small...
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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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...
Survivors
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...
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...
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Phoenix and coffee to come back for
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...
Looking for a better life, 2 small portraits
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Ukraine revisited after 6 months of war
2022 8 Ukraine Ushgorod Rybnyk Schagen The war is 6 months old and after long deliberations (with my wife) I finally get a feel for...
Bow strings from Simone in Amsterdam
Destiny
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2016
Simone looks up from her work to me through the open door of her workshop. She just finished her rolled...
Zirka
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...
TENNIS
Hello stranger I am having fun
Serbia, Belgrade, February 2018
A relatively warm Sunday late afternoon in the centre of Belgrade. Studentski Park is during the week a favorite hang out...
Minsk: Sasha and Korpus kulturtsenter
Living in Belarus
Belarus, December 2017 Nearly three decades ago the Sovjet Union disintegrated, fragmenting into a multitude of states, each developing their own way. I...
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