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Learn to love words

Kenneth Kaunda

To appreciate those odd ways in which we try to cope - I think that is essential

Thomas Moore

I love deadlines - I like the wooshing sound they make as they fly by

Douglas Adams

Getting lost in the verbal dance, the rhythm of the drum, and ending up in the Cosmos...

Léopold Sédar Senghor

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Wee hem die vraagt: waarom?

Nescio

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This is one of my favorite photos of all time, taken in the North of Kenya during yet another period of drought. The Turkana are pastoralists who have managed to survive for centuries, but now find that their lifestyle can no longer sustain them due to population growth and climate change.
Transience - nothing stays, everything changes; it's a curse as well as a blessing. At the moment I'm working on a text/photo book on this theme.
Also part of my project on 'Transience'.
This is King Nicoles, of Mananjary, in Madagascar.<br>'What is the worth of a car if I don't know where I'm heading?'
A picture from Liberia; it says everything that needs saying after a long, bloody civil war. <br>
What exactly exists between heaven and earth? Or is the 'word' exactly in that one, short sentence already too much to begin with...?
Another favorite of mine - the beauty of existence, wrapped in one image.
These hands demand respect. Their skin is tough as the toughest leather. A life of slogging.
Meet Sylvester - he is on the cover of my book, 'Spots of a leopard - on being a man'. You'll find more information on 'Spots' inside.<br>