The Sweating Subject

Ghana (Northern Territories), Dagomba chief with the title Kari Naa (aka Karaga Naa), name: Mahama Adam (dob July 5, 1921) with members of his court, formerly a farmer. He is one the three chiefs eligible to become paramount chief (aka king). He is from the Andani family (Andani “gate”).Ghana (North), Dagomba chief with the title […]

Blood Bonds: Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda

Liberatha lost three of her eleven children, including twins murdered by men who attacked her house at the start of the genocide. Her entire family was also killed. After the genocide, she (in her own words) was ‘insane’ and consumed by anger for years.
In a sociotherapy group, she met Alphonse Ranyemera, who served 15 years […]

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

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 […]

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