Together with Associaci? Dem? there is an exhibition from December 12th till December 31st.

Read the announcement here!

Yesterday, I was browsing my RAW files and found this portrait from Mali which, I did not process.

This man is Hamadi Mama Cisse, Chef de Village of S?nossa close to Djenn?. We were invited in his house had a chat and had an intensive look at his collection of post cards from all around the world. After a while time was right and I asked if I could make some photo's, Mr. Hamadi was more than pleased and was willing to move a bit to have a nice background and being lit by the light shining through the door.

More portraits from Mali can be seen in the slide shows:

• Faces of Mali, Part-I
• Faces of Mali, Part-II
• Desert Road Crossing

Some of the portraits from Mali will be part of an event in Brasilia in November 2008. The announcement slide-show:

The days of 2007 are counted, time to review the results.

Mali changed my attitude on photography a lot. It never came into my mind to do people photography, in Mali however I managed to be that close to people and it worked out well. I feel managed some nice portraits and combined the results in 3 slide shows which, can be found in the people section on the web site.

After Mali I learned that printing black and white is not an easy job, for that reason I invested in a good Epson printer and became more and more dedicated to black and white photography. In 2008 I plan to print out some of the portraits for an exposition.

Expectations where high for the trip to NYC, at home looking at the photographs I found the portraits made there with too much distance.

The good thing I took from NYC was a collection of photographic books that where hard to find in Europe. Reading about and looking at work from other photographers brought me lots of inspiration, I however spend few memory space on the hard disks for new work.

Early October by coincidence I took some portraits just in front of our house. There is nothing wrong with coincidence, it was reacting in the right moment. These are my best portraits from Europe, I plan more to do of European portraits in 2008.

At the moment I am with my wife in India, let's see what I bring home by the end of January 2008

Stay tuned,
Vinc

for sure... yesterday's photograph did not fit to everyone's taste. Maybe I convinced one or more visitors to consider to reduce consumption of meat. Today a more human photograph.

We met this boy in Niafunke at the Niger river, he did not speak French (neither do I) but wanted to be photographed. Mali people are extremely open and friendly.

Life in Mali is hard and sometimes direct, not every butcher has his closed shop where he prepares the meat. This butcher we met in Djenn? and was happy to stand for a portrait.

My intention is not to shock you here, the intention here is to show you that there are also less smooth subjects in Mali.

This man we met during our trip in Pais Dogon, he was making strainers.

I slowly run out of photographs from Mali. We are in the planning phase of our next trip. By the end of December our next destination will be southern India.

I just uploaded a new slide show containing some more portraits from our trip to Mali earlier this year.

In San this man was our taxi driver who took us at a boat trip. We all had a good day, he was proud to show the area where he lives and make some money.

I have more photographs from Mali...

More to follow next days!