Category: Photography & journalism

06 Jun

HOME: It’s Too Late To Be A Pessimist

‘If we can improve the images of the world, perhaps we can improve the world’ Wim Wenders Wim Wenders’ words have perhaps never been more relevant to a movie than in the case of Home. Following directly on from Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, Home is, of course, a film with a message that sets [...]
17 Apr

Rebuild Your Future

New Trailer for the project Rebuild Your Future. In co-operation with the Dutch National Youth Council, The Netherlands Refugee Foundation and UN Youth Representative Wouter Thiebou. See also www.rebuildyourfuture.nl Related items HOME: It’s Too Late To Be A Pessimist Elkouria “Rabab” Amidane wins student peace prize Africa Day 2007 Students Challenged to Change the World [...]
14 Jan

Images des Maroc

Just back from Morocco and studying again… Here are some pictures from an interesting journey through the High Atlas, through the Sahara and along the Atlantic Coast. Related items Rebuild Your Future Africa Day 2007 Empowering people through photography and journalism HOME: It’s Too Late To Be A Pessimist Doen WIJ genoeg voor een betere [...]
05 Oct

Stand with the Burmese Protesters

Burma is ruled by one of the worst military dictatorships in the world. This week Buddhist monks and nuns began marching and chanting prayers to call for democracy. The protests spread and hundreds of thousands of Burmese people joined in — they’ve been brutally attacked by the military regime, but still the protests are spreading. [...]
24 Sep

Act of Faith

Is faith permissible? Or is faith compulsory? How sacred is the line separating church and state today, long the unquestioned foundation of Western democracy? How firm is the theory of evolution? How conceivable is unbelief? The press on earlier Noorderlicht Photofestivals ‘Fascinating, original, (..) with depth’ (NRC Handelsblad, The Netherlands)   ‘Belief: indispensable for one, [...]