LET’SCH FOCUS returns to Amsterdam
Tweet A second solo exhibition in the city centre of Amsterdam, in the beautiful GO Gallery. More details will be online soon, but the opening will be on Saturday, February 16th at 16:00 (PM). From Budapest to Cambodia, from broken eggs to a lizard…. Let’sch Focus! What, where, when? Details here >>
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 [...]
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! …
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: October
Tweet I know! I am a bit late with my ‘photo of the month’, being the end of the month already. Nevertheless, I wanted to share this photo of my little friend from India: Choti (which by the way means ‘the little girl’). I am thinking of using this photo as a Christmas or New [...]
On our way to Romania – day 2
Tweet Today, we cycled Berlin under the sun, ate Indian food and saw Puccini’s Tosca in ‘Die Deutsche Oper’. We could easily spend a lot more time here, but we will continue tomorrow, heading for Krakow. Why we travel? Read this post. And for day 1 in Berlin, have a look at my previous post. [...]
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 [...]
Exhibitions
Tweet PLANNED August 25 – 28, 2011 GO gallery, Amsterdam – The Nethelands [details online soon] September 17, 2011 IJlst Festival – Friesland – The Netherlands [details online soon]
A winner!
Tweet Remember I posted about our special photoshoot > in Varanasi? Two of the resuling images already have success… The photo below was a winner in a photo competition organized by WNF/WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) in cooperation with ZOOM magazine. The title of the competition was ‘Geef de Aarde door‘ (‘Pass the Earth’). [...]
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 [...]
Plagiarism for Dummies
Tweet ‘Do you have Plagiarism for Dummies?’…. Summery of recent blogposts: Again: violation of my copyright Again: copyrigt infringement? Mijn foto bij ‘Rijdende Rechter’ [in Dutch] Plagiarizing my work?
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 [...]
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 [...]
The day after …
Tweet Yesterday, I photographed the afternoon light > that turned the reeds into beautiful warm tones and regretted not having brougt my ‘real’ camera, only my iphone. This morning, I took revenge. At first, the world surrounding me looked very grey, untill the first sunrays tried to light the morning. Though overcast, I enjoyed the [...]
Iphone photography
Tweet Went for a walk, like I have done almost every afternoon these last days. In the beginning there’s five of us: our two donkeys and two goats follow me faithfully until I reach the edge of our terrain. I climb over a fence, leaving them behind (loud protest from the donkeys!) , and follow [...]
Duniya’s new website online!
Tweet Finally, Duniya Foundation has a new website online. First in Dutch, working on English version! We describe our work, show you our work in photos and video, have a blog, a special photo-action, a webshop and more. If you don’t read Dutch, please bear with us, you will be able to read the translation [...]
Autumn in the Morvan (France)
Tweet I spent a little over a week with my parents in France. I don’t think I have ever seen more beautiful autumn landscapes than here in the Morvan. The colours were absolutely stunning.
Autumn light
Tweet It must be a strange view: when I walk to the Tjonger river, in search of the ‘perfect light’ for fall photography, I have two donkeys and two goats as company. They too enjoy my search for the right timing, waiting for soft, even light by the end of the day. Often, we return [...]
We did it!
Tweet As a photographer of the project, and as member of Duniya Foundation, I am so proud to let you know that yesterday, our Lai Chau Rehabilitation Centre opened officially. Of couse, we will soon tell and show you much more on our Duniya website (totally renewed soon!) but for now I am happy to [...]
Plagiarizing my work?
Tweet note: see recent updates below The number of ‘artists’ copying my work, without permission, without payment, without any reference to me as the photographer and owner of the image, is growing. The concept of intellectual property doesn’t seem to exist in the minds of these copy cats and I wonder what I can do [...]
First, spring in The Neherlands with fields full of 
I am selling postcard through 