Photo of the Month: December
Tweet Just returned from Vietnam, where I spent some time in our (Duniya Foundation supported) rehabilitation centre in Lai Chau, home to 51 handicapped children. I worked on Street Food Vietnam, our second book in the series and about which more later. Here a young boy with Down syndrome is having his lunch. He is new [...]
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 [...]
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?
Before and after
Tweet This is one of our patients. A H’Mong girl from a very small village in the mountains of Lai Chau. When posing for me, she looked very serious, but she was really happy with her new eye. If you click the photo below, you will first see a snall version. Clicking it again will [...]
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, [...]
Exhibition in Amsterdam | The Netherlands
Tweet Go Gallery (Amterdam – The Netherlands) invites you to my exhibition ‘Duniya Celebration’, a weekend photo-exhibition to celebrate Duniya Foundation‘s fifteenth anniversary. The opening will be on Friday, August 26, from 17:00 – 21:00 and we will serve a drink and (Indian) bite! Soon, there will be more information on the website of Go [...]
Shalloo verjaardagskaart: ‘the making off’ [Dutch]
Tweet Diegenen die mij volgen op Facebook of Twiter, hebben de afgelopen dagen waarschijnlijk echt wel een keer gedacht: daar heb je háár weer met haar ‘ballonnen verjaardagskaart op Kaartje2Go’… Dat kan ik begrijpen, en toch ga ik je nu nog een keer lastigvallen met die kaart. Hij staat vandaag namelijk op de eerste plaats [...]
Foto-actie online (Dutch)
Tweet Speciale foto-actie ter ondersteuning van het werk van Stichting Duniya in India en Vietnam! Steun ons met € 50,- of € 25,- en ontvang een grote foto naar keuze. VERSPREIDEN VAN DIT BERICHT – BIJVOORBEELD VIA TWITTER HIERNAAST – WORDT ZEER GEWAARDEERD! Duniya is voor haar werk in India en Vietnam volledig afhankelijk [...]
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’). [...]
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.
Kabutar’s story published
Tweet Kabutar’s story is published in India today: Gender Bytes. If you would like to see more photos, see this link. Also, please sign this very important petition, please: Call for Government Action to Stop Female Genocide In India. Duniya Foundation has a new website! Many photos, fairtrade products from India and Vietnam, (christmas) cards, [...]
Online Magazine: first trial
Tweet Busy trying different ‘Page Flip’ programs to develop an online magazine, like this one for Duniya Foundation. Soon, the magazine will not only show photos, but also video’s and you will be able to hear local sounds as well. In the magazine below, I have tried to give you an idea of the work [...]
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 [...]
Photo of the Month: September
Tweet He knew that our project focusses on the surgery of handicapped children (Duniya Foudation), but he begged us to help him too: a grown-up man with a severe cleft lip (schisis). He felt so ashamed, life was hard. Then, in his village in the mountains, he heard a voice on the radio telling about [...]
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 [...]
Photo of the Month: June
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 [...]
First, spring in The Neherlands with fields full of 
I am selling postcard through 