Posts Tagged ‘Asia’

Photo of the Month: December (slideshow!)

Portrait of child(ren) at Duniya supported Rehabilitation Centre

Tweet I just returned from Vietnam where, apart from supporting the eye surgery of a group of children, I visited the Duniya supported rehabilitation centre in Lai Chau. A home for 45 blind, deaf, cerebral palsy or in other ways handicapped children. A place where they play, eat, receive physiotherapy, medical care, special education and [...]


The colour white

Hindu women praying in the holy water of river Ganges, Varanasi

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 [...]


Nikon colours

I am .... Nikon Colours

Tweet   Also in Rajasthan’s Thar desert, we focussed on colour during our ‘photoshoot‘  with ‘streetmodels’. We spent time in ‘gypsy villages’ where the father slaughtered a chicken and prepared curry with roti, while we had fun with colourful dupatta, where little girls put deep black kajal under their eyes and laughed when they saw [...]


Photo of the Month: June

month-june-thum

Tweet Anita recently delivered her first child, a son. An emergency Caesarean section which she could not afford. Her husband and mother-in-law disappeared and have not seen the baby. They decided that almost blind Anita was not good enough. Not as a wife, nor as a daughter-in-law. Not anymore. Her – almost blind – father [...]