SAUDADES
Reflecting Rio, Arpoador, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2013
Eyeing the paradise of spirituality. Lhasa, Tiebt Autonomous Region, China, 2007
Waving goodbye to Durga, Hooghly River, Calcutta, India, 2008
Every year during Durga Puja, millions of Bengalis worship Durga, goddess of protection, strenth and destruction. Thousands pf Durga statues, made out of mud taken from the holy river, are painted in beautiful colours, dressed to the finest, and housed in beautiful so-called pandals, kind-of palatial temporary houses...
Every year during Durga Puja, millions of Bengalis worship Durga, goddess of protection, strenth and destruction. Thousands pf Durga statues, made out of mud taken from the holy river, are painted in beautiful colours, dressed to the finest, and housed in beautiful so-called pandals, kind-of palatial temporary houses...
At the Hooghly river, Calcutta, India, 2008
After a week of great partying, Durga, is immersed back to the holy river, symbolizing the eternal circle of life, causing this Hindu devotee to cry.
After a week of great partying, Durga, is immersed back to the holy river, symbolizing the eternal circle of life, causing this Hindu devotee to cry.
Immersing Durga into the Hooghly River, Calcutta, India, 2008
Galle Fort, Sri Lanka, 2006
Commemorating the victims of giant, deadly Tsunami waves which had hit the modern center of Galle. The centuries-old ramparts that had been built to withstand cannon fire, saved Galle Fort from the devastating impact of the tsunami waves.
Commemorating the victims of giant, deadly Tsunami waves which had hit the modern center of Galle. The centuries-old ramparts that had been built to withstand cannon fire, saved Galle Fort from the devastating impact of the tsunami waves.
No better place to cultivate saudades, Miradouro da senhora do Monte, Lisbon, Portugal, 2011
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Fernweh, former Tempelhof airport, Berlin, Germany, 2013
Before the boom, Modersohn bridge, Berlin, Germany, 2003
End of the road, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, 2014
Weight of love, Pont des Arts, Paris, France, 2015
Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2016 Deep in the heart of Africa, at the upper end of the navigable part of the great Congo River, locals know how to celebrate their wanderlust: New York City, Champs-Elysées...places like dreams which will probably never become a reality.
Dreaming of Italy, Germany#s first dream destination, Kleinmarkthalle, Frankfurt, Germany, 2019
Dreaming of Dubai, the world's new capital, on the dirt road from Kajiado to Amboseli National Park, Kenya, 2020
Jade sea was one of the name of Lake Turkana…..
Jade sea was one of the name of Lake Turkana…..
Dorasan Station,Korean Demilitarized Zone, 2998 Once constructed to transport materials to Kaesong Industrial Zone in North Korea and to return with finished goods to South Korea, the staion fell into slumber to due the heightening tensions between the two Koreas.
Puerto Natales, Patagonia, Chile, 2015
It ain't paradise, Transnistria, Moldova, 2017
The feeilng of coming home, Alex TV tower, Berlin, Germany, 2016
The last paddy farmer, on the outskirts of Hanoi, Vietnam, 2016
Tourism's last frontier, dream beaches on the Indian Ocean, south of Mogadishu, Somalia, 2021
House of Ghosts, Nairobi International Airport, Kenya, Covid-August 2020
House of Ghosts, Dutch owners at their empty overlander camp at Lake Malawi, Malawi, Covid-November 2020
Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya, 2020 Scientists collecting oocytes from Fatu, one of only two northern white rhinos, in a desperate attempt to avoid extinction. No male northern white rhinos exist any more, levaing infertilization as the only means to guarantee the species' survival. Extinction would be forever.
Abandoned Chacaltaya ski resort, Milluni, Bolivia, 2010 Opened in the late 1930s Chcaltaya, 5340m, had offered affluent citizens of La Paz skiing for seven months of the year, on the world's highest slopes. Sientist had predicted that the glacier would be gone by 2015.They were optimist. it was gone in 2009.
Reduced to rubble: a formerly grand villa in Jaffna shortly after the end of the civil war, Sri Lanka, 2009
Reduced to rubble: Former residents wait to be taken to their new homes in the outskirts of Shanghai, after their houses in the center had been torn down to create space for high rises, China, 2007
Reduced to pieces, documenta 14, Kassel, Germany, 2017 Mexican artist Guillermo Gakindi denouncing flight and persecution in the Mediterranean by showing the wreckage of a refugee boat used by traffickers to ferry migrants from Africa to Europe.
Funeral on the banks of the Ganges, Bihar,India, 2010
Funeral in Camara de Lobos, Madeira, Portugal, 2011
Funeral in Manila, Philippines, 2017
Funeral of a Hindu dignitary, outside Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, 1998
Jewish cemetary, Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, 2016
9/11 Memorial,New York City, USA, 2011
Martyrs' cemetary, Herat, western Afghanistan, 2004
Commemorating victims of the Paris terror attacks, near Canal Saint-Martin, November 2015
Shirokorechenskoe Cemetery, outside of Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2015 In the 1990s mafia shootings, abductions and extortions were the order of the day in Yekaterinburg. Since life was often short these days, the mafia made sure that life after death, at least, was good and luxurious. Palatial mausoleums sprang up as last resting places for mafiosos killed in actionand their playmates.Even i death they tookcare to show their excessive wealth. On a life-sized mafia figure's marble statue, a Mercedes key was discreetly hanging out of the staue's pants pocket.
La Recoleta cemetary, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2012
La Recoleta cemetary, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2012
El Cementerio de Cristóbal Colon, Vedado, Havana, Cuba, 2011
Lychakiv Cemetary, Lviv, Ukraine, 2017
