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International Photography Day.

Sunday, August 19th, 2012

August 19th is International Photography Day. The Daguerreotype was made public this day in 1839. That’s not more than 173 years ago. We sure have come a long way… At this link there are 90 tributes to my dear colleagues…

It was Carnival…

Tuesday, August 14th, 2012

Been editing and scanning old negatives for ‘This is not Belgium‘… I forgot how gloomy carnival can be in Belgium sometimes.

Irrelevant? No: overdue…

Thursday, August 9th, 2012

A story about elections in Jammu&Kashmir I wanted to put on my website but never managed to get in there… If you know my website well, tell me which other new stories I just uploaded?

What was I thinking?

Friday, August 3rd, 2012

Really: what was I thinking during that fabulously missed/successfull/unproductive trip of 1971?

Off to Italy

Friday, July 13th, 2012

We are off to Italy. Back to Umbria. Will I find what I found 30 years ago?

Inventory time…

Thursday, July 12th, 2012

Hundreds of 30×40 cm baryte prints, some on Agfa Portriga Rapid, most on Agfa Brovira, self-made in the early 90’s to be sorted, signed and stored properly. How many hours have I spent in the darkroom for this?

Afghanistan 1971

Wednesday, July 11th, 2012

My first real trip in a far away land… Two months on the road, thousands of kilometers driving a second hand Volkswagen beetle. Being stoned in Kabul, getting involved with a drug trafficker, overturning his Citroën DS while avoiding a donkey, and then totally wrecking it under a stranded truck in the middle of the […]

Don’t forget ‘Le Tour’ is touring…

Thursday, July 5th, 2012

The highest celebration of the most clever mode of transport is under way: ‘Le Tour de France’ will write another page in its 99-year old history.