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Archive for November, 2011

Floods down there, up here

Sunday, November 6th, 2011

Boeung Kak lake was quite heavily flooded again due to the rains last night. Drainage solutions put in place by Shukaku Inc. are definitely quite weird…

Dialogues with the Dead – 3

Saturday, November 5th, 2011

In Western culture All Saints Day is traditionally a time to remember the deceased. As it turns out I seem to have quite a few pictures relating to funerals and rituals related to the deceased. In the following posts I will take you to different parts of the world on a not necessarily morbid journey… […]

Dialogues with the Dead – 2

Friday, November 4th, 2011

In Western culture All Saints Day is traditionally a time to remember the deceased. As it turns out I seem to have quite a few pictures relating to funerals and rituals related to the deceased. In the following posts I will take you to different parts of the world on a not necessarily morbid journey… […]

Dialogues with the Dead – 1

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

In Western culture All Saints Day is traditionally a time to remember the deceased. As it turns out I seem to have quite a few pictures relating to funerals and rituals related to the deceased. In the posts for the coming days (weeks?), I will take you to different parts of the world on a […]

They do Halloween… THEIR Halloween…

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

All Saints celebrations in Todos Santos (Guatemala). Part of the story on people living in mountains. There is a book bundling those three stories: ‘Peuples d’en Haut’.

We don’t do Halloween…

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

In Belgium Halloween is a phenomenon very recently imported from overseas. But Belgium being Belgium, I found this: back in 1982, October 30th… They sure look like a band of witches to me…

7 Billion?

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

7 Billion? Wrong… Not anymore… Since yesterday it is more than that… Here is a story I did on overpopulation in New Delhi… 1,5 million inhabitants when India became independent. 15 million 50 years later…