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Keeping Pressure on HIV/AIDS

Saturday, December 1st, 2012

On this World Aids Day, I gathered a set of photographs related to HIV/AIDS taken over the years in Cambodia and bundled them in a story on my website at this URL.

The FTFT Movement…

Thursday, November 22nd, 2012

The ‘Free Turkeys From Thanksgiving’ movement advocates for the application of Universal Turkey Rights, freedom of choice, freedom of expression and well… freedom all over and for everyone. Today it launches its campaign ‘SAVE YOUR TURKEY’, which means eat tofu instead. The movement has at least one member so far… From the ‘Squares‘ story and […]

Dialogues with the Dead – 75

Sunday, November 4th, 2012

From the story ‘Abkhazia, a Sidelined Country’… This is the 75th post on my weblog about ‘Dialogues with the Dead’. All the photographs from ‘Dialogues with the Dead’, a series started on my weblog on All Saints Day 2011 are now bundled here, in this new set on my website. In Western culture All Saints […]

King N. Sihanouk Funeral, day 7 (afternoon)…

Sunday, October 21st, 2012

The crowd grows bigger and bigger in front of the Royal Palace on the 7th day since King Norodom Sihanouk passed away. All the photographs from the past days are to be found at this link.

King Sihanouk Dies…

Monday, October 15th, 2012

King Norodom Sihanouk dies in Beijing, age 89. ‘Papa’, as he called himself, has gone…

World Teacher’s Day

Friday, October 5th, 2012

The CITA (Cambodian Independent Teacher’s Association) organised a demonstration at ‘Freedom Square’ in Phnom Penh to celebrate World Teacher’s Day. A teacher’s salary in Cambodia, depending on qualifications, is between 30$US and 60$US, less than a factory worker. Obviously this salary is far from sufficient to live a decent life and it incites to corruption. […]

This is not Belgium: before I left

Saturday, September 1st, 2012

With the ‘This is not Belgium’ project in the back of my head, I re-edited part of my Belgium photographs taken in the ’70’s and 80’s, before I started travelling. They are available now on my website. Here for the years 1972 to 7979, here for the years 1980 and 1981, and here for the […]

First and Last

Friday, August 24th, 2012

In a strange coincidence uniting the good side and the worst side of humanity, here are the first and the last photograph in my database taken on Kodak Tri-X. It seems Kodak wants to sell what they were doing best: their film department. Soon there might not be any Tri-X available. Is there a buyer […]