PEOPLE: MONTH #145
"very nice people met leaving in a stockholm hostel while renting my apartment out to save money and getting to know a nice french guy working as a nurse and a german girl and some americans but also a polish guy i took for some special walks in the unknown parts of stockholm with an australian girl but also meeting some nice swedish students i taught environmental campaigns to"
PEOPLE: MONTH #146
"my last time living in a hostel in stockholm while working at the university there and getting to know some interesting people like a romanian girl living in canada but also photographing some people met during my doctoral dissertation like the audio visual technician and back in the netherlands photographing some of neighbours during the summer street party"
PEOPLE: MONTH #147
"people met in our street in holland like our poor neighbour ada and a psycho woman related to the former chilean dictator and then going to venice to refresh my apartment there meeting quite some beach sellers mostly from bangladesh and getting to know some folk on the lido beach"
PEOPLE: MONTH #148
"people met while in venice like a crazy neighbour playing the guitar and singing very loud also giving me some guitar lessons and folk met down the very south of lido beach but also getting to know better the hasselblad foundation curator and her girlfriend whom we hosted for over a week and also getting to know an estonian girl renting for some days our room"
PEOPLE: MONTH #149
"making it to stockholm in the middle of the summer to register for unemployment and staying at a hostel getting to know some nice folk like a peruvian scholar quite obsessed about on-line dating and a few refugees but also a cool german guy going on big adventures through the wilderness of sweden and anice russian experimental musician"
PEOPLE: MONTH #150
"still people met in a stockholm hostel while waiting to register as unemployed and trying to communicate there with a chinese man unable to speak english and other folk like some italian guys and a catalan girl before returning to the mountains and meeting people in my contrada such as an old woman born there coming to stay above our apartment and being most impulsive"
PEOPLE: MONTH #151
"in venice photographing the french guest of our apartment involved in the art biennial and also photographing the sister of a friend working at one of the pavilions to then make it back to the mountains and photograph the designer daughter of a neighbour to whom i showed my exhibit in the barn there and also showing it to the relative of the inventor of the microchip photographing also the local architect who helped me with getting the renovation of the barn and the girl he was after and at last also photographing a girl asking money on the street and making portraits"
PEOPLE: MONTH #152
"nice folk met in a remote valley in trentino where i bought an old tractor to keep on building my project and later also in the mountains meeting the friends of my neighbour son eating homemade pizza with them and explaining them my project"
PEOPLE: MONTH #153
"still young folk met in the mountains eating homemade pizza at my neighbours and also meeting a greek girl renting a room in our venice apartment before getting back to the netherlands and meeting two street musicians from venezuela singing italian songs and later getting to know luca from italy at the3d printer shop in utrecht where he helped me realize a model of my virtual cathedral and introduced me to a dutch client and a young assistant"
PEOPLE: MONTH #154
"people met at first in holland like a young southern italian selling pizza in amsterdam and a another southern italian met on the plane who got really fascinated about my project and in venice meeting the turkish student i kept in my apartment for free and then in the mountains in italy meeting some locals like a christian couple helping migrants and also meeting a migrant helping him out with money"
PEOPLE: MONTH #155
"still traveling to sweden this time to meet august and meeting folk in a cheap hostel in stockholm mostly looking for job like a guy from a sicilian island and also meeting the two ukrainian workers helping renovating my son country house and meeting a dutch man living in the netherlands before meeting the italian cousin and the dutch girlfriend of my new friend luca"
PEOPLE: MONTH #156
"meeting the group of a dutch band where an italian friend now plays and getting to know the very good guitarist to then travel to venice and meeting a young artist working at a art supply shop as well as an old man performing opera in a square before flying back to holland and meet a young italian couple on the plane"
PEOPLE: MONTH #157
"meeting a lot of different people in the netherlands like a neapolitan guy a dutch architect and an albanian pianist all doing pregnancy yoga with us and then meeting an arab shopkeeper and my dutch neighbour to then also meet folk related to myrthe's mother boyfriend in amersfoort"
PEOPLE: MONTH #158
"photographing the doctor and the nurse who gave birth to my daughter and then also photographing the nurses who came to assist her in the first weeks like a pretty sloppy one and then her fantastic replacement later also photographing a colleague from myrthe and neighbours and relatives coming to visit little new born livia"
PEOPLE: MONTH #159
"still dutch folk met visiting my newly born daughter and then traveling to italy and meeting friends of my parents and then people in the mountains like the guy helping me cutting trees in the valley to my future installation and then an opera singer singing in venice in a square and a nun from the bakita sanctuary"
PEOPLE: MONTH #160
"people met while in italy with our newly born daughter clearing the valley below my installation and meeting people both in schio like the cook of a restaurant and some students from bassano where i taught a lecture as well as several migrants i helped with food and money and a lady from our mountain village but also a drunk in venice"
PEOPLE: MONTH #161
"an old german lady met selling apples in nuremberg telling us about the awful allies bombing there and then meeting people from our dutch street like the son of a sporty neighbour and his sudanese refugee friend but also an half blind and highly talented chilean woman relative of another political refugee and then in utrecht with myrthe talking to the guy picking trash by the river and also meeting a drug addict wanting to see little livia as well as an invalid dj and later meeting an art professor from our town"
PEOPLE: MONTH #162
"talking to several holland based artists exhibiting their work in a small village and then still meeting people walking across utrecht with little livia and especially getting the help from an american woman who took pity of me in a time livia was crying really hard and other than that also meeting people on the road helping those in need"
PEOPLE: MONTH #163
"folk met while traveling with august in provence like a poor and drunk but very intelligent belgian man we gave a ride to and an italian immigrant running a bar in a town but also two french old ladies met walking on an aqueduct and then in italy meeting my cousin new boyfriend before hanging in the evening with davide and jason and meeting three japanese artists"
PEOPLE: MONTH #164
"in italy photographing the mother of our friend elisabetta and then helping out with the village celebration in the mountains and photographing the youngsters working there as well as one elder working with me in picking the trays from the tables"
PEOPLE: MONTH #165
"still folk met during the festivity of our mountain village and then also meeting folk at my mother seaside place such as my sister's in-laws and a poor chinese lady going around to massage people and the talkative mother of a girl playing with my niece and august"
PEOPLE: MONTH #166
"meeting people mostly at the seaside like an ice-cream seller whose family had escaped the yugoslavian persecution of italians and other sellers like in the mountains a moroccan old man selling unnecessary things but trying anyway to help him out and also getting know a dutch architect colleague of myrthe and some old women friends of old gianna as well as a boy scout passing by our village"
PEOPLE: MONTH #167
"still several boy scouts passing through our mountain village and asking me to pose with a mushroom for one of their assignments and getting to know them despite also some bed weather and also getting to know a local guy teaching me how to medicate a wound with a special grass"
PEOPLE: MONTH #168
"more boy scouts met in our contrada during a rainy day and also some migrants met on the train back from venice before meeting people from schio such as drunkard and a librarian and helping out a black old man"
PEOPLE: MONTH #169
"meeting on my way to italy the swedish-finnish pregnant girlfriend of my old russian friend pyotr and in italy staying at a hostel meeting a very cool canadian photographer and in venice helping out a black guy on the street before meeting the new tenants of my apartment like a turkish academic and her slavic friend and at last in the mountains meeting the brother of a neighbour who came to help me clearing the valley to my installation"
PEOPLE: MONTH #170
"folk met in a sunny fall traveling to italy to attend the baptism of my best friend's son and meeting his relatives like a guy studying philosophy but also the friends of my best friend's wife especially talking to a girl in love like me with seneca and at last traveling back to the netherlands and chatting on the train with a nice eastern african scholar"
PEOPLE: MONTH #171
"helping out a french guy without any money and then photographing the much attacked black poets during a christmas festivity before photographing a sicilianfriend of roberto and then some dutch folk parading with world war two american jeeps"
PEOPLE: MONTH #172
"traveling a new route down the belgian ardenne after dropping my girlfriend younger brother to fetch his car there and ending up in middle of the remembrance of a great battle with mostly belgian folk dressing up like american troops and a few dressing like nazis and getting to chat with some in the actual big monument commemorating the event and later driving south and stopping in the beautiful city of strasbourg and exploring it despite the recent terrorist attack there and meeting some bumps dressing up like santas or playing christmas songs before making it to italy and meeting there the super muscular boyfriend of my step sister and some people in the sunny and nice villages south of the garda lake where we awaited for august arrival"
PEOPLE: MONTH #173
"people met while in a village south of the garda lake waiting for august to arrive by plane and photographing the owner of a very small restaurant who got us a meal a christmas eve and the father of the owner of the bed and breakfast where we stayed to later make it to milan to pick august and exploring the city going first to chinatown talking to a lady there and then discovering a nice road and getting to chat with the sicilian chestnut street seller meeting later a girl dressing like santa handing out fliers by the navigli and some folk met during breakfast like a guy visiting his young daughter living with her mother and a musician going to a spa"
PEOPLE: MONTH #174
"still people met while staying in a small village south of garda lake like the owner of a big hotel turned into a cheap bed and breakfast and her sicilian hipster boyfriend turning the garden into a wood chopping site and while in vicenza with my small daughter seeking to be hosted by my mother after our stove broke in the mountains meeting some street musicians and beggars but also a swedish german couple with a small kid and my mother cleaning lady who escaped her violent sicilian husband in milan"
PEOPLE: MONTH #175
"still in venice getting to know a drunk homeless and an argentinian girl before meeting my homosexual brazilian tenant and later back in the mountains the adopted son of a local till at last going back to the netherlands and at a birthday meeting a half dutch and half slovakian girl before going to berlin and getting to know a roman couple trying to launch a small pizza place there but also meeting another homeless"
PEOPLE: MONTH #176
"folk met while in stockholm attending an opening and really getting to know all sort of artists especially young ones who have been hearing about my project like a performance artist my age who used to live in germany and somali artist but also getting to know a young student making a swastika out of the swedish flag"
PEOPLE: MONTH #177
"folk still met while in stockholm such as a guy who was really impressed with my project and a nice italian american artist living in provence with her husband but also meeting my oldest son and hanging out with his friends"
PEOPLE: MONTH #178
"in uppsala spending time with august and meeting one of his friends coming from russia and later getting to meet quite some people going to see a landhockey game spending the whole afternoon hanging around the city center and following the crowd of fans from two different teams walking to the stadium "
PEOPLE: MONTH #179
"people met while in culemborg such as the drum player of the local band and the city mascot but also a talented theater student whose father recently died and later traveling by myself across germany and stopping to say hi at my turkish tenant meeting her parents and friend who worked in german factories all their lives and at last spending a sunny week in innsbruck with my norwegian friend who was there for a wedding and roaming around the city meeting a young migrant"
PEOPLE: MONTH #180
"still folk met while roaming around in innsbruck such as an african migrant i have helped finding her way to the station and then chatting also with an half austrian half african guy living a bit as a poet in the streets of the austrian city before meeting up a young swedish couple taking advantage of their paternity leave to travel around europe and impressing them with my swedish as well as with the fact that i left the research position which the guy so much aimed for later making it to italy and photographing the guy providing me with the metal to build my installation as well as is weird brother but also photographing a kind hunter living in the near who went very early on a retirement and with whom i occasionally had a chat about the historical subjects later also meeting an interesting woman with quite an artistic talent and of venetian origins she said to be even of arab descent as her last name camuffo shows"