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Picture taken on the way in, but I guess it’ll be the same on the way out… Returning to Brussels, loaded x negatives to scan.

Just like in Belgium a pipe is not a pipe, this is the Magnum Paris office where I’ll probably spend the morning…

There are some projects brooding with Robert Delpire and Michel Christolhomme. But no dates set…

Off to Paris for three days. Pre-selecting the Inge Morath Award, meeting for exhibition and book(s?), meeting with the Paris photographers ahead of the Magnum AG in Arles (which I will not attend), finally see my copy of ‘Contacts’, collect negatives to scan in Brussels.

One week without taking photographs. It was itching bad… Picking up on the ‘This is not Belgium‘ story. Started somewhere here, back in 1972…

In case you didn’t notice, but Lens Blog has published a nice review about ‘Quest for Land’. I am honoured that it was Seth Mydans who wrote the article. He definitely is a journalist I show much respect for (and that was before he wrote about ‘Quest for Land’). So thank you Seth… You are […]

And the numbers are rising… All pictures from the stories on refugees I did. More on my website here…

It seems there are plans to develop the Olympic Stadium of Phnom Penh. In Cambodia ‘developing’ mostly means ‘filling’ (like the Boeung Kak Lake) or ‘levelling’ (like the Suramarith Theatre). The stadium was built in 1964 on plans by Vann Molyvann and if it never hosted the Olympic games, it is used every day by […]