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 […]
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’.
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? 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…
Posting this as the fireworks celebrating the 89th anniversary of King Sihanouk are popping in the skies of Phnom Penh. Happy birthday ‘Papa’. His return from exile is also celebrated at the same time… Brings back nice 1991 memories (see the story on my website)…
Posted at the exact time of the beginning of the Rugby World Cup final opposing New Zealand against France, here is a link to a story about the a href=http://www.johnvink.com/JohnVinkSite/Other_Countries/France_Rugby_Culture/index.html#VIJ1999015W00012_01 title=Rugby Roots target=_blankRugby roots in France/a, shot on assignment for the daily Le Monde in 1999.
Twenty years ago the Paris Peace accords ended the war in Cambodia… on paper. It would take several more years, a huge bag of U.N. money and a lot more of politicking to finally put an end to decades of misery. I spent one month in Cambodia in 1991, before the arrival of UNTAC, and […]
The endless and fastidious saga of re-scanning, re-editing, re-spotting old negatives was complemented with the story on Bulgarian refugees in Turkey (1989), and was uploaded on my website.