Tag: People
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The lonely bather
The lonely bather The old French landscape shows many deep tracks drawn by rivers during millions of years. It’s nice descending into them for a cool bath, or to follow the riverbed for a while between the steep walls of the worn out gorges. These are “Les Concluses de Lussan”, with deep gorges carved out…
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Pub in Perth
Pub in Perth Came here for a beer. Liked the atmosphere. The screens above the bar. The animated people. The girl in bikini with hat. Photo of the week: Cafe in Perth, Australia 2013
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An open forest
An open forest In 2011 we were building our house on a mountain slope in Kumaon, in the Indian Himalayas. From the place where I was staying to the construction site I would always walk through this open forest. I still pass through it regularly and still like it. It must be the gentle slope…
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Nocturnal Prague
Nocturnal Prague Time for a little story, for you to imagine … Photos of the week: Prague, Czech Republic 2007
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Fondness
Fondness Which one shall we take? The food vendor smiles. The mother chooses. Love streams. Photo of the week: Gion, Kyoto, Japan 2008
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I know where I’m going!
I know where I’m going! A deserted beach. A flag on a pole in the wind. A woman walks with unfaltering steps straight to the point. What point? Where? Why? “I know where I’m going!” says her body. For us who only have one image and not the whole film, it will remain a mystery.…
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Tableau vivant
Tableau vivant Scene at an art fair – visitors miming gestures as accidental actors in a shadow play unaware of the spatial configurations their poses produce on stage. Photo of the week: Art Genève, Geneva, Switzerland 2015
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And her name is freedom
And her name is freedom She saw me looking intently at the reliefs on a wall of Persepolis. She asked if I liked them. She was sitting on a bench and offered me some nuts. I sat down next to her and we started talking, about the art, about my country, about hers. She was…
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Selfie girls
Selfie girls 1979 – ….They are waiting for the moment that the second date can be filled in – and the chapter of the Islamic Revolution in Iran be closed.The generation of the young seems ready for it. As for them a new chapter starts tomorrow. The chapter of a free and secular Iran. Photos…
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Learn young …
Learn young … Growing up in the 1950s in the catholic south of the Netherlands, my primary school was run by friars. For girls there was a convent school. Seeing these white-hooded, charmingly looking girls I get visions of hundreds of schools full of them, condemned by the Mullahs to become budding little nuns in…
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