The Sweating Subject is a series of group portraits of tribal chiefs and their court, which includes myself, photographer Jan Banning. All are members of the Gonja or Dagomba tribe […]
RED UTOPIA Communism 100 years after the Russian Revolution Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, Communism seems like a thing of the […]
FOR THE BOOK, CLICK HERE. “(O)nly by making comparisons can we distinguish ourselves from others and discover who we are, in order to become all that we are meant […]
A buffer zone in Cyprus was first established in 1964. The UN sent peace keepers to prevent a recurrence of fighting, following intercommunal violence between the Greek and Turkish […]
This was Dickson ten years ago: a typical village of fifty households in the African country Malawi. Photographed and described, five short years after the United Nations in September 2000 […]
(LISTEN TO INTERVIEWS >>>) For the book and the iBook, click here. For those of you, men and women whom I have photographed and who have not received the […]
National Identities Xenophobia, and especially islamophobia, is on the rise in many European countries. In my native Netherlands, as well as in Italy, Austria, Denmark and Hungary for […]
Comfort Women (Troostmeisjes) The past is never dead. It’s not even past. (William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun) Raping women seems to be a normal byproduct of wars. During […]
Renovation of the Rijksmuseum Until 2013, the Rijksmuseum (Dutch National Museum, specializing in Art and Dutch History) in Amsterdam is under reconstruction, renovation and restauration. The present building […]
