Dit boek is om op te vreten!
Tweet Het is nu écht bijna zover: mijn boek Street Food India komt uit! Eten van de straat was nog nooit zo lekker! Het is een bijzonder boek geworden waarin ik je niet alleen wil laten genieten van vegetarische gerechten, maar waar ik je vooral graag wil meenemen naar binnenplaatsjes in India waar op houtgestookte [...]
Streetfood: Dum Aloo (दम आलू)
Tweet One of the projects I am working on for several years now, is streetfood, a collection of photos and recipes of food prepared by the ‘common man and woman’ I meet during my travels. Simple food I eat in the homes I have been invited to, or at the small road stalls when on [...]
Photo of the Month: May
Tweet A portrait in difficult light. For those interested: ISO 2500, 85 mm, f/1.4, 1/125 sec (Nikon D3s). Most probably this photo will be in an exhibition. Details online soon.
Photo of the Month: April
Tweet April, ten years ago. Bobby, at that time a young girl living in Nagwa slum, had a serious wound in her head with maggots creeping out. An x-ray in Benaras Hindu University showed that the maggots were trying to eat into her skull – literally – and we had to apply an aggressive fluid [...]
Photo of the Month: March
Tweet Please note that all my images are digitally watermarked and are not to be used or copied in any manner without my permission. That includes internet use!
Remembering Bheru
Tweet Last Sunday, Bheru died. I knew him for many years. From the time he broke his spine when he was burried under a collapsing roof during a marriage party he attended in a slum area, and later, when my friend Anouk supported him during and after surgery, from the many, many visits to his [...]
In just five clicks!
Tweet Walking in an Indian bazaar, my Nikon dangling on my shoulder, this boy quickly clicked five times. I really liked the creative result when I later saw these images! Don’t know who owns the copyright though! See the other four images here and please note there is a very interesting discussion here, related to [...]
Photo of the Month: July
Tweet Remember I wrote about our special photo shoot we organized with the mothers, children and other relatives related to Duniya Education, all from poor families living in the same slum area? I am still working on organizing the images in an online archive, where they will be for sale, in support of our work [...]
Streetfood: Teatime!
Tweet I have been working on a project called streetfood for several years now: a collection of photos and recipes of food prepared by the ‘common man and woman’ I meet during my travels. Simple food I eat in the homes I have been invited to, or at the small road stalls when on my [...]
The colour white
Tweet If you go to bed tonight, wear a white pajama, for the ancient Greeks knew already it will ensure you nice dreams. Thinking of white as a symbol, it’s interesting that we in the West believe it’s the right colour for brides to wear, whereas in for instance Vietnam and China, it’s the colour [...]
Photo of the Month: April
Tweet At our school Duniya Education, we appreciate students speaking up when something bothers them… So in between classes, you may encounter children discussing school matters next to the bathtub that functions as washing place for hands and lunch plates.
Streetfood: Chotu’s chicken curry (India)
Tweet One of the projects I am working on for several years now, is streetfood, a collection of photos and recipes of food prepared by the ‘common man and woman’ I meet during my travels. Simple food I eat in the homes I have been invited to, or at the small road stalls when on [...]
The milkman’s daughter
Tweet In 2008, I photographed the milkman’s daughter Deepika (Rajasthan, India) and promised the family that as soon as her photo would sell, she would earn too, an agreement we put in a (model release) contract which was ‘signed’ by her (she used her thumb and ink), countersigned by the father and me. The little [...]
Cover model
Tweet Yesterday, Papu received her share for being the cover model on George Mastras’ book Tranen over Kashmir (Fidali’s Way in English), as well as for the posters Goodearth India designed on the basis of my photos.
Then, and now
Tweet These photos, published in the bi-monthly magazine India Nu (‘India Today’), are part of a larger series and is still expanding. I often return to the people I portrayed earlier and give them their photo. Sometimes, this was the first picture they ever possessed of themselves. Holding their photo, I portray them again. A [...]
Stijlloos [Dutch]
Tweet I was invited to publish a portfolio in ‘De Moanne’, a magazine with a beautiful layout in Dutch and Frisian language. The text in Dutch is below, the PDF can be seen here > Stijlloos Het is altijd een eer als je als fotograaf wordt gevraagd een portfolio te leveren. Een paar beelden die [...]
Christmas!
Tweet In know! Saint Nicholoas is still in the country, but before you know he will leave and you will have to be prepared for Christmas. Are you in need of Christmas images? For your company’s greeting card? A newsletter? Your website? Consider these photos: most of them available through World Portraits (search tag: India), [...]
Amu
Tweet Yesterday night, we saw the beautiful film Amu by Shonali Bose. An impressive story about the young girl Kaju against the background of the horrifying genocide in India: the 1984 riots against the Sikh community (see Wikipedia for more information), triggered by the assassination of Indira Gandhi in the same year. I visited many [...]
About a blind girl nicknamed Kabutar (‘pigeon’)
Tweet I know Kabutar (कबूतर) for many years. When I met her the first time, she was introduced to me as अंधी कबूतर, blind Kabutar. At the time, I had no idea that Anita was her real name, and ‘Kabutar’ a nickname meaning ‘pigeon’. Anita didn’t go to school, but helped her mother who was [...]
Today Sonu died…
Tweet Sonu suffered from chronic (ongoing, long-term) hepatitis B. His liver had become hardened, called cirrhosis, and could no longer caryy out its normal functions. Duniya Foundation financed his treatment for a long time, including several hospitalizations, and helped him by delivering hot meals, adjusted to his (special) diet. Unfortunately, we could not help him [...]
Death in Varanasi
Tweet Just finished uploading a selection of photos dealing with death rituals in Benares, India (to be published soon). Some of these photos were taken several years ago, but I remember all the moments so well. People who not only invited me to take photos (to ‘record’ the dead body) but also shared their ‘ritual [...]
Posters available!
Tweet The posters have reached and can be ordered. The size I have available right now, is 68,5 x 47,5 cm (including the text at the bottom that states that 50% of the sales of these posters will be invested in Duniya Education, free eductaion and hot meals for 85 children from a slum in [...]
India: Goodearth posters
Tweet I started an inspiring and stimulating cooperation with The Goodearth Company in India: on the basis of my photos, their designer Krsna Mehta created the posters below. And that is not all! Goodearth decided that 50% of the proceeds will go to Duniya Foundation, in support of our education programmes in Varanasi. This information [...]
First, spring in The Neherlands with fields full of 
I am selling postcard through 