Speech at Book Launch of Law&Order, Bronx Documentary Center, NY (sept. 20, 2016) On July the 9th, 2000, around 2:30 in the morning, Constantino Sseremba was killed in a suburb […]
“Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends of Rosa Verhoeve, The Dutch East-Indies colonial history has been playing a prominent role in the Dutch public debate and in Dutch cultural life, certainly […]
Death Sentence for Susan Kigula In 2010, in Luzira Women’s Prison, I met with 30-year old Susan Kigula, probably Uganda’s best-known prisoner, for the first time. She was convicted of the […]
Summer 1950. The American photographer W. Eugene Smith sets off on a trip to Spain for the renowned weekly magazine Life. Eleven years earlier, the civil war ended there with […]
Opening Speech 701 CCA, Columbia SC, Jan. 16, 2014 A portrait series of homeless men and women who I encountered in South Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi in 2010 and 2011. […]
The Colombian singer Cenelia Alcazar is 78 years old and a musical living legend in her own country. You can check her out in the video above (and several others) posted on […]
On August 17, 2013, I was invited to make a speech on the occasion of the annual commemoration of the Burma and Sumatra (Pakanbaroe/Pekanbaru) Railways in Bronbeek, Arnhem (the Netherlands). […]
What do we – producers and consumers of photojournalism – expect from a photo in a journalistic context? New information? A shift in our perspective and an incentive to reflect […]
On March 19, I received an email from a Ugandan PhD student at the Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, named Andrew Akampurira. Thirty-year-old Andrew received a masters degree in Sweden […]
“Justice delayed is justice denied”, the officer in charge of one of Uganda’s prisons said to me. In most of the nine Ugandan prisons I have visited so far, prisoners […]
