To wake up in another country in your own bed.
Estonia, Narva, Paldinski, July 2018 In your own house, in your own bed: in the morning you wake up and suddenly you are in a...
Roots and identity, tradition and change
March 2018 Taroudant/Marrakech Morocco
In the Sidi Ayoub area of the Medina (the town inside the city walls) of Marrakesch Abderrazzak El Maana unexpectedly...
Fall down and get up
Serbia, Obenovac, February 2018
I meet Goran Mitrovic in Obenovac, an hour drive from Belgrade. Now 57 his life coincides with the most turbulent periods...
Why did you not leave?
Serbia February 2018
When emigrants come back to Serbia this question "why did you not leave" is not uncommon amongst the generation that grew up...
Maria Bakalo in Lviv
Ukraine, Lviv, December 2017 2018 Lviv
Lead picture: Maria Bakalo (Masha) during a rehearsal of a new performance. I met Masha in 2016 and revisited her...
Saint Nicolas song
Sad Flower Saint Nicholas celebration December 15th 2017 Drohobich Ukraine See for the full story Saint Nicholas
Saint Nicolas: private small scale charity in Ukraine
Ukraine, Lviv, Drohobych, December 2017
Contrasts in celebration of a children's holiday
The birthday of Saint Nicholas which falls on the 6th December is the biggest...
Soviet style corruption still prevails at state university in Lviv.
Ukraine, Lviv, December 2017
Exam time at Ivano Franko State University Lviv: a classroom where students are divided into two rows and a lecturer who’s...
Minsk: Sasha and Korpus kulturtsenter
Living in Belarus
Belarus, December 2017 Nearly three decades ago the Sovjet Union disintegrated, fragmenting into a multitude of states, each developing their own way. I...
Kovbasa krovjanka and farsherovanii perets in Drohobich
Ukrainian hospitality
Drohobich, Ukraine, August 2016
The Ukrainian language is not easy to master but I have decided to learn its basics, at least. In western...