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Match 27

Monday, September 27th, 2010

I did very few corporate assignments, maybe four or five… The one you see a picture from was fun to do: tracking people who were reading ‘La Repubblica’ in Northern Italian streets for two weeks. I will put that on the website soon.

Match 26

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

Handicap International commissioned me some time back for a really interesting assignment on their activities in Cambodia. The result was exhibited at an open-air exhibition in Belgium. The first picture has a quite different setting of course…

Match 25

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

The first picture is from the Belgium selection series. The second is from the Cambodian 2003 elections. Besides some visual similarities, there are others… The existence of Belgium as a country is threatened. Cambodia as a country thinks it is threatened. But the real trick here is that Sam Rainsy just was condemned in absentia […]

Match 23

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

This picture of Bulgarian refugees is one of 19 different refugee situations I photographed over a period of five years. I always seem to be slow in finishing things…

Match 22

Monday, September 20th, 2010

Match 21

Sunday, September 19th, 2010

The frozen clock is from the 108 Landscapes series.

Match 20

Saturday, September 18th, 2010

After the ‘unrest’, back to the matching pictures series, taken 15 years (minimum) apart… The Cambodian tree drowned by development land could have been part of the story on Phnom Penh Development. It became part of the Evictions Gallery…

Match 18

Monday, September 13th, 2010

The hand painting picture was taken during a story on the Chom Chao garment factory workers.