My short yearly trip to Europe has three advantages: I can eat strawberries for breakfast, and I can scan old negatives while AT THE SAME TIME watching the Tour de France. A few photographs never edited/never scanned/never published from the refugee camps in Honduras, back in 1988. More on those here.
My short yearly trip to Europe has three advantages: I can eat strawberries for breakfast, and I can scan old negatives while AT THE SAME TIME watching the Tour de France. A few of the never edited/never published/never scanned photographs from my 1985 trip to Burkina Faso. From the story ‘Water in Sahel‘ you can […]
They are hitting the roads today. The Pedal Executioners, the Big Thighs, the Feather on a Mountain, the Lone Breakaway, the Compact Pack, the Streamlined Time Rider, the Sprint Puller, the Kamikaze of the Alps, the Faithfull Water Carrier… They will all be there for the 100th Tour de France starting today. I was privileged […]
It could happen to you too… A country slips into violence, or a natural disaster strikes, and you might have to leave everything behind you. This is World Refugee Day. There are 7.6 million people who became a refugee or were displaced in 2012, one every 4.1 seconds… Total is 45,2 million… Between 1986 and […]
I’m off to Yangon to participate at ‘7 Days in Myanmar‘. It is very likely I will not be able to feed this blogging beast as often as usual, from today until May 8th. Here is what I did on my previous trips to Myanmar.
’30 Years for a Trial’ is both a report on the trial of Duch, the infamous director of S21, a Khmer Rouge interrogation centre where 15,000 people were tortured and killed, and a reflection on the difficulty of photographing the Cambodian genocide. With texts by Robert Carmichael, over 170 photographs by John Vink and a […]
So Chechenia is in the news… The U.S. news that is. Back in the late ’90’s they suffered a brutal repression by the Russians and were in the news there for quite a while. Here is a very small insight of what some of them went through: Chechen refugees in the Pankisi valley of neighbouring […]
‘Royal Silence’ is an e-book for the iPad with 185 photographs by John Vink about King Norodom Sihanouk’s passing away in October last year, marking the end of an era for the Cambodians. It contains photographs of the King upon his return from exile in 1991, as well as from the massive crowds grieving the […]