it's cold

I hope they are at least friends..

... winter

The city of Antwerp

Continued from yesterday's post

The town of Korce in Eastern Albania,



On the right hand side sits Ilja, my fixer, who used to live for 3 years in a hotel, because some thugs burned down his house.


A gypsy kid in a gypsy part of the town


Busy market in Korce:

Albania Old photos- new edit

I have just re-edited my photographs from 2006 trip to Albania, here are some gems ;-)
Bajram Curri in Northern Albanian Alps:
After 1997 the area was wild, wild and lawless .  During those times the town lived mostly from smuggling stolen (from Albanian army) weapons  for UCK (Kosovo Liberation Army)

Bajram Curri is located on the foots of Albanian Alps. They are absolutely stunning.
The images were taken in a remote village of Dragobi




Dragobi village in Valbona river national Park :



A fine example of traditional for Albanian Alps architecture:

Random snaps from nowhere

Off Festival, Katowice

Fortunately I am flooded with assignments. For last 1,5 months I have been crossing Poland from one end to another- hence lack of posts.
The photographs below were made during Off festival in Katowice , Poland. The event is absolutely great. The idea is to promote music which is OFF the mainstream.
Here is the link to the 2010 Off festival Katowice edition

Cosplay

 Cosplay is an abbreviation of „costume play”. Cosplay fans dress up as specific characters. The characters are typically drawn from japanese fiction books and movies: manga, anime etc. For a real Cosplayer it is dishonour to buy a costume, they spend hundrets of euros and countless hours to create these costumes. The most important thing is to accurately represent the character – it means not only dressing up but also behaving and acting like one.

I shot these Cosplay portraits during annual Japan Day in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Aussie heart part 4: Sydney

Catalonia

Barcelona historical harbour

famous La Sagrada Familia inside

Parc Guell

Small town attractions


Pro independence demonstartion in Barcelona


radical youngsters at pro independence demo

Salvador Dali museum in Figueres

Salvador Dali tomb in Figueres

balcony in Barcelona

Rough sleeper in Barcelona

Shooting photos at Montserrat monastery

Locals at Montserrat monastery

tourists in religious extasy in Montserrat monastery



A tourist demonstrating "fly on the wall" shooting technique a'la Cartier-Bresson

a street in Barcelona

Dogs life in Aran valley

chilling out

RIP LOVE PARADE

 It is shocking what happened yesterday during Love Parade in Duisburg. Young people came to well known peaceful event to dance and have some fun... :-(((
I was at Love Parade twice. In Essen and in Dortmund. There were huge crowds (about 1,5 mln people) and I can't really imagine how someone in Duisburg could came up with an idea of openning just one entrance. It was disaster waiting to happen. The people who were responsible for security organization in Duisburg should end up in jail.
The following images are from the last Love Parade that took place in 2008 Dortmund. In 2009 Love Parade was cancelled due to lack of money for proper security...





These images were shot in a very similar tunel to the one where the disaster happened.














Some more images from Last Love Parade, Dortmund 2008

More football snaps

Ukraine



Senegal


Kosovo


Cracow



Transdniester



Romania



 Brussels



Senegal



Germany




The Netherlands (2010)



Sardinia



Poland



Albania

Aussie heart part 3 : CREATURES

A dingo hanged on a tree

Jarvis Bay 

Australian kampf hund :-)

Kangaroo I

Kangaroo II

Kangaroo III

Football – World Cup and other snaps.

Public screening of England vs. Portugal during the Fifa World Cup quarter finals in Gelsenkirchen, Germany
British fans before the game:





British football fans after the game:









German fans during 2006 World Cup in Germany




some random football snaps


Sulina, Romania



Kosovo market-football



Romania-winter football



Albania:



Clandestinos in Calais, France


Chisinau, Moldova, 1981 Moscow Olimpic Games memorial



Football monument, Iceland Eastern Fjords

Aussie heart part 2: forests

Lumberjack competitions, Swifts Creek

Eucalyptus forest

Aussie heart part 1 : water

Here is my subjective response to the expectations which I had, before traveling to Australia.

Part 1: water

Surfing school

Giant lobster

The pleasure of leisure: Gleneelg

surf school II

 

                 Rainy day in Melbourne

      Melbourne ferry

  Melbourne ferry II

                                                                Kiama blowhole

Wilsons Promontory

                                                                          Jervis Bay

                                                            Small town

                                                                         Bondi Beach

                                                        

The tower

Tower in Dusseldorf, I have much more of this stuff, but I am too lazy to scan'em all :)
Shooting this was more like collecting f#####g stamps than photographing...
This tower is the most recognized piece of architecture in Dussedlorf. I really can't understand why all the photos/postcards/calendars/books/souvenirs sold in the D-city, show only one and always the same view- the tower from the river side.