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Gallery overview
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Africa |
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Amsterdam |
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General |
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Africa
Travelling in Africa is impressive. Back home it is easy to tell the spectacular stories: the mosquito net burning in the hotel room, nearly drowning in the treacherous sea, getting lost in the rainforest or the elephant running with flapping ears towards the taxi brousse. But what impresses the most is much more difficult to transmit: the atmosphere, the flavours, but especially the daily life of the proud people, who usually own less than the contents of the backpack of the average tourist.
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Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, The Gambia
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Guinea-Bissau |
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Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda |
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Tunisia |
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Tanzania Refugee camps of the Burundian Hutus and ethnic mixed Hutu-Tutsis.
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The Gambia Report about female sex tourism in The Gambia. |
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The Gambia Tourism in The Gambia. |
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Children in Africa The mother gave me a penetrating look. “Could you please take two of my children to Holland with you?” she asked. “Then at least they will get enough food and can go to school. I would have very much liked to study myself.” Afterwards, she pointed to a lovely little boy and a beautiful intelligent little girl. Both children looked at their mother with frightened faces and started to cry. |
Seville, Spain
Tapas, flamenco, bullfights, museums, discos and innumerable cervecerías in a scenery of medieval little lanes and monuments.
Seville is a curious mix between the Middle Ages, the nineteen fifties and the 21st century. In a lot of squares you can use wireless internet. In the little pubs -cervecerías- at lunchtime passers-by empty their beer glasses and artists, gay men and women, ladies in fifties-style suits, baby buggies, goths and bull-necked men with big backsides stand cheek by jowl at the same bar. From way back, the inhabitants are Catholic and the impressive processions during Semana Santa in the holy week before Easter still bear witness to a deep devotion... Or to a strong community spirit and having a great liking for popular parties? Two weeks after so much darkness, guilt and penance, the colourful Feria de Abril starts and Seville celebrates exuberantly for seven days and nights.
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Semana Santa Nowhere in Spain are the processions during Semana Santa – the Holy week before Easter - so spectacular and impressive as in Seville. The town numbers 60 different church brotherhoods (hermandades), most of which carry along the little alleys two pasos: platforms with a more than life-sized gold and silver tableaux of holy figures from the crucified Jesus, followed a short time later by a sorrowful or crying Virgin Mary. Accompanied by the sounds of slow, melodic marching music, penitents bearing a black cross on their shoulder, guardia civil, candle carriers (acolitos) and sometimes up to 2000 nazarenos (spooky figures wrapped in long vestments and pointed caps), the statues are manoevred through the small medieval streets. |
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Feria de Abril The colourful April Fair in Seville has its origins in the annual cattle market, when the farmers move into the town with their animals. Nowadays, in the Los Remedios district are two thousand casetas, large striped marquees, which are privately-owned by families, groups of friends, or clubs. Even though only a few casetas are open to the public, the whole of Seville goes to the Feria. In the afternoon, the horsemen parade with their beloved through the little streets of the festive ground. The ladies sit astride the horses, the frills of their tawdry flamenco dresses fluttering in the wind. In the evening they gallop to the bullfight ring, where the fighting reaches its climax. During the Feria de Abril, everyone dances the sevillanas until daybreak, eats jumbo shrimps, uncooked ham, potato tortillas and drinks Manzanilla. To prevent too severe a hangover, there is also rebjito: sherry mixed up with 7-Up. The fairground attractions are an important part of the Feria de Abril. |
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Football The study by the British agency SIRC in 2008 shows that the media greatly overestimate the importance of sex. SIRC interviewed 2000 football fans from seventeen different countries. What emerged: in Spain 72% of the football supporters prefer a football match to sex, in Holland 67%. The English fans associate football most with friendship (85%). The nationality most infatuated with football are the Swedish: for no less than 95% Swedish fans a football match is the only thing in their lives which evokes powerful emotions. However, the supporters like to forget some matches as soon as possible. Like the match Sevilla-Almeria when it was raining cats and dogs…. |
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Departure of pilgrimage from Seville to El Rocio The week before Pentecost, 106 church brotherhoods from the entire Andalusia depart with horses, decorated carriages and cows to El Rocio to celebrate the holy virgin of Rocio. This famous holy figure is better known as La Paloma Blanca, the white dove. The white plastered and unpaved village of El Rocio is completely deserted throughout the year; only during the pilgrimage is there a gathering of up to one million pilgrims (romeros). |
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Images of the street Daily life in Seville.
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Architecture and tourism |
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The 78th birthday of Adelita Domingo Singing teacher Adelita Domingo has educated many saeta singers: the singers who, from the balconies, perform an ode to the holy Mary figures during Semanta Santa. Adelita doesn’t need a walking stick: when she walks through the patio, she leans on her former pupils. |
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The Communion for the elderly and sick persons Once a year, the church visits sick, old and handicapped people and gives them the Eucharist in their homes. |
Amsterdam
Hasjiejsh, prostitutes, tulip bulbs, pigeons, chips and canals. A closed Museum for Modern Arts, the same story with the Rijksmuseum and an underground line under construction, so that the city undermines its historical centre. At the same time, Amsterdam appears to be a liberal, multicultural city.
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Keti Koti photo report. Keti Koti means ’the breaking of the chains‘ and is the memorial day of the abolition of the slavery, which continued in Surinam untill 30 June 1863. Every year on 1 July the Dutch of Surinam origin celebrate the freedom their ancestors regained after more then 200 years of slavery under the Dutch colonial regime. During Keti Koti many women wear colourful traditional shawls, underskirts and headwear, the koto, panji and angisas. By draping the angisas around their heads in several ways, the women could pass messages to each other unnoticed, while they slaved away in the fields under the supervision of the slavedriver. |
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Images of the streets Daily life in Amsterdam.
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Animals in town
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Keep on rocking! You can see that rock and roll is still alive from the hundreds of rockers at the annual D-Day meeting at the Cruise-Inn pub in Amsterdam. Fashions of the fifties, greased forelocks, petticoats, vintage cars with smoking wheels and beer, a lot of beer… The rockers, rockabillies and psychobillies each have their own style. |
General
Various subjects.
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Architecture and cultural heritage Holland |
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Architecture and Archeology International |
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Homeless persons Homeless people are seldom romantic adventurers: psychiatric patients also live in the street, in addition to the man who became an alcoholic after his divorce, the manager whose business went bust because of an economic decline and the refugee who has already been waiting for many years for her residence permit.
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Spain Departure of pilgrimage from Almonte to El Rocio. |
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Spain Party of the Mores and the Christians, Alcoy. |
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The Netherlands Below sealevel. |
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Surinam |
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Surinam Hindu wedding. |
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Music |
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Portraits |
Shorts
Special, short series.
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Shorts 1 Dr. Rat and Margharita d'Amore. |
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Shorts 2 |
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Shorts 3 Bulbs, bottoms and balls, dreaming Polish tulip bulb peelers.
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