[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 [...]
Appels & nagellak: Street Food Vietnam in voorbereiding
Tweet Afrekenen op de markt is nog niet zo makkelijk als je zeer slechtziend bent. Want hoe onderhandel je over de prijs van een kilo appels als je doof bent en nog niet goed kunt liplezen? In een omgeving waar niemand gebarentaal kent en voorzieningen voor slechtzienden ver te zoeken zijn? En toch zul je [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
News! Exhibition in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tweet On the 7th of June at 7 PM, my solo exhibition LET’SCH FOCUS will open in Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires (Argentina). It’s an honor to exhibit in this centre, known for the best exhibits in the city, not limited to photo exhibitions alone but also host of events like theatre, modern dance or [...]
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?
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Operation Vietnam
Tweet In Lau Chau Province (Vietnam), Duniya Foundation supports the surgery of children from poor ethnic minority communities. The families often travel for days from their remote villages in the mountains, and hope for medical help. Hundreds of children were succesfully operated and their problems varied from orthopedic trauma, to burn scars, urological problems, and [...]
Busy building online Vietnam archive
Tweet Working really hard to have my Vietnam archive online soon. Combining my activities for Duniya Foundation and photographing in several ethnic minority communities, resulted in a rather unique collection. All images will be available for publications, as prints etc. and part of the profit will be used to set up a medical fund for [...]
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 [...]
Photo of the Month: August
Tweet Plural this time, for I want to show you more than just one photo. We (Dong An, our Hanoi based Vietnamese counterpart, our surgeons and Duniya Foundation) are planning the surgery of another 100 children by the end of November. Preparations are already being made and local health workers try to list and organize [...]
First, spring in The Neherlands with fields full of 
I am selling postcard through 