Mongolia – Intimate Conversations of Foreign Souls
A heart the size of a fist and a white sponge of lungs. A bloody liver lies beside a large stomach. Next to it,...
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Russia – the streets without white bears
Metallic sounds of trombones and a rhythmic beat of drums. Loud cries in a foreign language. White and green wigs...
Thaipusam – the way of finding bliss
In Singapore, the Sri Thendayuthapani Hindu temple resonates with the rhythmic music of drums, bells and...
Tidal Waves
“You will catch bait for barracuda”, one of the fishermen explains to us. Earlier in the day, a long wooden boat...
Buddhism at the hanging rock
On Vesak Day, 2017, my husband and I found ourselves on the tear-shaped island of Sri Lanka, home to a population...
Damnoen Saduak – Thai market that rocks
An older man, tucked under a reed hat, stirs with a long ladle content of an aluminium pot that steams on a...
Maeklong – Thai market for adrenaline rush seekers
Folding awnings shade a narrow alleyway covered with makeshift market stalls. They mostly consist of plastic...
The Shwedagon Pagoda – magnificent witness of the Buddhist novitiation
The Shwedagon Pagoda – an almost 100-meter high stupa that majestically rises on Singuttara Hill – has...
Fish Market in Jaffna, Sri Lanka
PHOTO ESSAY From a glass cabinet, a statue of the Christian saint guards the fishing village in Jaffna, the Tamil...