[DUTCH] Let’sch Focus in De Bolhoed
Tweet Zin in een vegetarische lunch? Diner? Hapjes met glas wijn? Ik heb een kleine expositie in vegetarisch restaurant De Bolhoed, Prinsengracht 60-62 in Amsterdam. De werkstukken zijn te koop (afgewerkt op 10 mm MDF, randen zwart afgewerkt, inclusief ophangprofiel). Formaat 30 x 45 cm, prijs € 100, formaat 50 x 75 cm, prijs € [...]
Photo of the Month | May 2013
Tweet Two boys. Their first time in a local hospital in Muòng Tè (Lai Chau Province, Vietnam). Both of them were brought to the hospital by their father. The boy in the front was carried by his father, who walked for two days to reach us. His son misses upper thighs as a result of which [...]
Páng!
Tweet Today we visited Páng’s mother in a remote village in the province of Lai Chau (Vietnam). Her mentally handicapped daughter of six stays in our rehabilitation centre (sponsored by Duniya Foundation) and Páng’s mother misses her. She was crying, but relieved when I could show her that Páng is doing really well. Those [...]
Published: Uno Mismo
Tweet Published: six page photo special in this month’ Uno Mismo, Argentina. PDF can be seen and read online.
Muy Interesante
Tweet Although my name is spelled wrong (both on the cover as in the printed article), it’s nice to have a photo special in Muy Interesante (Argentina). The (corrected!) article is here as a PDF.
El retorno del sol
Tweet Today, it was the longest day in my country and the shortest here in Argentina. I was lucky to be invited to photograph the ‘Inti Raymi’, a celebration in Tilcara (province Jujuy) which marks the beginning of the indigeneous New Year, the beginning of a new agricultural cycle. A celebration of the return of [...]
Photo of the Month: June
Tweet Not mine, this time, but taken by Hans: Centro Cultural Borges in Buenos Aires, Argentina. On the 7th of June, my exhibition LET’SCH FOCUS opened and it was a great succes! Many visitors, live music, delicious Malbec wine and a stunning location where my photos can be seen till the 1ste of July. More [...]
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.
Preparing an exhibition
Tweet Preparing an exhibition with photos from India, Vietnam and The Netherlands. Where and when and why? Will post more information as soon as possible. Selection of photos is hard. This photo will take part. I think… So 79 more photos to go! …
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 [...]
Streetfood: Alu Jeera, cumin flavoured potato cubes
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 [...]
Last chance: Go Gallery
Tweet If you missed the LET’SCH FOCUS exhibition in the Go Gallery in Amsterdam, this is your last chance to visit! We have these opening hours this week: Wednesday 29/2 (12:00-18:00), Thursday 01/03 (12:00-18:00), Friday closed (!), Saturday 12:00-18:00.
Photo of the Month: February
Tweet An elderly Red Yao (Son Dao in Vietnamese: ‘the red waxed heads’) woman is being helped wearing her turban: three layers of red cotton decorated with pompons (or French 20-cent silver coins, when for ceremonial use). Women in this community shave off their eyebrows and foreheads, traditionally a sign of beauty. The women in [...]
LET’SCH FOCUS – exhibition
Tweet From January 21 to March 4, I will have an exhibition in the Go Gallery in Amsterdam. The gallery is open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 12:00 to 17:30. There will be photos from India and Vietnam, as well as a small ‘bazaar’ with handmade products, sales will support the work of Duniya [...]
Photo of the Month: January
Tweet Last month. A small H’Mong house in the mountains of Lai Chau in Vietnam. A woman is stirring in a huge frying pan containing corn (about which more later!). The heating fire is the only source of light. I am photographing and filming the cooking process when I look behind me and see this [...]
Streetfood: Vietnamese corn & chicken soup
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 [...]
Published: Focus (photo) Magazine
Tweet Focus Magazine published a eight-page special with my photography (#1, January 2012). A good start of a creative New Year! You can see the pdf here. Text, however, is in Dutch. …
Photo of the Month: December (slideshow!)
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 [...]
Smiling
Tweet This girl is totally deaf and a student at our school in Lai Chau, Vietnam (supported by Duniya Foundation). Need I say more?
Seventeen new eyes today
Tweet As described before, we are in Vietnam to visit our rehabilitation centre and to organize ‘artificial eyes’ for a group of children. In the meantime, we have been here for a week and spent long days travelling to remote villages in the mountains, visit our patients, join classes in our centre, and shared dinner [...]
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 [...]
A new eye, at last.
Tweet In October this year, Duniya Foundation financed the eye-surgery of 22 children in the Vietnamese mountain town Lai Chau. At that time, we could not help all of those who came to us for screening: some of them had problems (tumors) too complex for the medical team to handle. [Read more under the photo, [...]
First, spring in The Neherlands with fields full of 
I am selling postcard through 