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Before you leave…

Friday, January 25th, 2013

Before you leave for your well deserved week-end, how about participating in the funding of the documentary movie ‘The Cause of Progress’? There are only 4 crowdfunding days left (see here) so it is kind of NOW if you don’t want to miss the opportunity of getting that film by Chris Kelly about land issues […]

4 Years…

Thursday, January 24th, 2013

I was reminded that 4 years have passed since the violent Dey Krahom eviction (see here) took place here in Phnom Penh. Has anything changed since? At Dey Krahom things for sure are not different: since the eviction the land still stands empty, so I guess the speculation didn’t really work out as planned for […]

Connecting Dots…

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013

It doesn’t happen often, but once in a while I get a reaction on some of my photographs decades after they were taken. It can be a man who recognizes himself with one of his ex-girlfriends or future wife and who will ask for a print of that photograph. It can be a Kurd who […]

Kashmir Exhibition

Friday, January 18th, 2013

If you are escaping the rigours of a European or North American winter or if for whatever other reason you happen to be in Chiang Mai (Thailand) between February 8th and 14th, you might drop by at the Chiang Mai Arts Festival (haven’t got a clue as to where exactly in Chiang Mai that might […]

13 from 2012 for 2013

Monday, December 31st, 2012

Not sure these were my best, but that was my 2012… 2013, here we come… PEACE…

8 Years ago…

Wednesday, December 26th, 2012

On this day, 8 years ago, a Tsunami hit the Indonesian coastline of Banda Aceh. The estimated death toll for Indonesia alone was nearly 170,000 dead. Also 500,000 people were displaced, making the island the worst hit by the third most powerfull earthquake ever recorded. I only managed to arrive in Banda Aceh on January […]

Looks like it…

Tuesday, December 25th, 2012

But it is fake (styrofoam and plastic)… And no holiday for Christmas in Cambodia.

Interview in “The Digital Photobook”…

Tuesday, December 11th, 2012

There is a long interview about and around “Quest for Land” in Martin Brink’s “The Digital Photobook” blog… ‘Quest for Land‘ is available as an iApp on iTunes.