Blood Bonds: Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Book For a month, Dutch photographer Jan Banning and writer Dick Wittenberg traveled through the Rwandan countryside. Deliberately avoiding the government-established “reconciliation villages,” they sought out spontaneous, grassroots examples of reconciliation. In July 2025, their book Blood Bonds: Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda will be published in both English and Dutch by Dutch publisher Lecturis. In the book, […]
Family Album 1988-1992 (The Verdict: The Christina Boyer Case)
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The Local Paper
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Single Portraits
Hans van Blommestein Lieke Steen Erwin van Delft Rosa Verhoeve – Photographer Suzanne van Leendert Manon Beernink Laura Jacquemijns Johan van Luik Lieke Schut Daniela Tasca
Renovation Of The Rijksmuseum
Mozambique: Arms into Art (2002)
By 2002, some 200.000 guns had been handed in on a “no questions asked” basis. In several places in the country, the organisation has containers with cutting-machines, where the AK447’s, pistols and grenade-launchers are destroyed. In Maputo, the remains, still very recognizeable as gun parts, are then passed over to a group of about ten […]
Azerbaijan, the Nagorno-Karabach War: Faces of Death (1994)
Some 20,000 people perished in the conflict. 230,000 Armenians from Azerbaijan and 800,000 Azeris from Armenia and Karabakh were forced to flee to the Azeri republic, with 7 million inhabitants. They camp in schools and hospitals, in former kolchoze buildings and in trains. Some of them managed to take along portraits of their loved ones, […]
Vietnam – Bomb Craters of the Mind
The after effects of war vary from case to case. Some traumas result from physical injury for example, shrapnel lodged in the brain. But also, veterans have suffered breakdowns because their wives left them for other men during their years far away on the Ho Chi Minh trail. Equally, many South Vietnamese who couldn’t find […]
Land mines in Cambodia (1987-1997)
Children of the White Mist – Vietnam Agent Orange
The American National Academy of Sciences (NAS) concluded that there is sufficient evidence of an association between Agent Orange/dioxin and several diseases, e.g. Hodgkin’s disease, Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and soft-tissue sarcoma, and suggestive evidence of an association with other cancers and diseases. The American Veterans Organisation (VA) has a long list of diseases that entitle veterans […]
