Babo geht kämpfen, tearsheet

The story about the yezidi communty Özlem and me worked on, got published yesterday. You can take a look at the full tearsheet and you can read the story online. Also take a look at the facebook page of Paruar - the guy featured in the story - for more pictures and information.

wordless 16

“Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.”
— Will Durant

Extranational Assembly

Some days ago I was invited by the artist Jerszy Seymour to the swiss alps in order to document The Extranational Assembly, a happening he initiated because he wants to redefine the way we think about nations and nationality.

wordless 14

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
— Henry David Thoreau

wordless 13

“There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.”
— Alfred Korzybski

wordless 12

“Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
— Albert Camus

wordless 11

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.”
— Gloria Naylor

wordless 10

“I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”
— Sir Winston Churchill

wordless 9

“The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.”
— Saki

wordless 8

“Friends, in my experience, are like ladies’ fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.”
— Stephanie Barron

wordless 7

“The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).”
— Faith Popcorn

wordless 6

“Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.”
— Edward Abbey

wordless 5

“Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.”
— Carl Sandburg

a smile

“You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.”
— Al Capone