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The Situation Room, May 1, 2011

Posted on May 3rd, 2011

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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011. Photo by Pete Souza.

I just love this photo. This caption you see above is the original caption provided by the White House for this photo (One out of 8 images revealed by the White House). My opinion is that it doesn’t do this fascinating scene much justice. Notice the scrambled/pixelated print on the laptop. Click on the photo to see it bigger.

More photos on the White-House flickr page.

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Manifestation against Nuclear Energy

Posted on April 17th, 2011

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2011 © Angus R Shamal

Amsterdam, the Dam — 16 April 2011. The City participated in the national protest/manifestation against Nuclear Energy. Many Amsterdam residents and people from neighbor cities gathered at the central Dam square to join the word and shout to the Government to stop the plans for new Nuclear Energy Plants. This was hardly the type of event we use to know from 15-20 years ago were images of people protesting in the streets and violent rallies breaking loose between the Police and the demonstrators, were marked in everyone’s memory.

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New York Style Stories by Maaike Holvast

Posted on December 11th, 2010

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Zelda from the self titled movie. © Maaike Holvast

Visited today the presentation of Maaike Holvast’s “New York Style Stories” @ Mediamatic. Along side the nice 5 films portraing different New York characters, there where also lovely still portraits of the characters hanging there shot by my buddy Stephen Elledge.

Go watch the films online (and soon the photos) @ limboland.

This Summer and Fall I have been filming 6 different New Yorkers for my web-series, New York Style Stories which has been programmed at Limboland.tv The 5th Episode of the series is up this weekend and the 6th one is programmed for Sunday the 19th.

Besides the movie portraits, photographer Stephen Elledge has also taken great still portraits of all 6 characters.

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Holland vs Spain 2010

Posted on July 12th, 2010

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Yesterday, as you probably know, was the Worldcup final between Holland and Spain. A very important game for Holland and the first WK final since 32 years! Museumplein (Museum Square) is the central place in Amsterdam if you want to watch the game in the outdoors among oh couple of thousands of football supporters. A bit intimidating for me, but I went to check it out and this is my impression of the day.
Quite a lot of photos for this rather “tight edit”, so enjoy.

Edit:
All images from this Story can now be viewed here.

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Contacts.2 DVD

Posted on November 29th, 2009

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contacts2

Recently I’ve purchased this interesting dvd Contacts, Vol. 2: The Renewal of Contemporary Photography. It’s the 2nd out of a series of 3 dvds, based on an idea by William Klein (directed Vol.1), which is a collection of short films about some of the leading names in contemporary photography. The photographers give commentary while going through

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