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Urgency for a cataract surgery in Cambodia.
During my Phnom Penh photography walks I regularly came across a small community of the poorest. On a small plot of waste land, right on the edge of the Mekong River. Named Areyksat, its located next to a busy ferry crossing. There are about twenty five or more huts built of waste wood on stilts…
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UNStudio delivers International allure to the City of Groningen.
“We couldn’t make it anymore more fun.” The well-known winged advertising message from the tax authorities has now become famous tile wisdom in the Netherlands. With the new office building of the Education Executive Agency (DUO) and the Tax and Customs Administration, it is in any case fine for the staff. It has been almost…
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Eye (I) Care for Cambodia
At least 1 billion people have a vision impairment that could have been prevented or has yet to be addressed. In 2016 I was asked to do some portraits for an NGO called Seeing is Believing. Two American brothers volunteering for this NGO were in Phnom Penh at the time and managed to find me…
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”Harvest for the World in Cambodia.”
NGOs in Cambodia provide a wide range of services to communities across the country.
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Ferrari 488 Spider, a Superb Visual Driving Experience.
Looking at the Ferrari 488 Spider for the first time is an overwhelming visual experience. Photographing the Corso Red color Ferrari on a beautiful Sunday morning is an invitation to the eyes and a great way to unravel the intriguing Ferrari design details, and let’s not forget it’s full F1 race pedigree. Follow me on…
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Phnom Penh Photo Walks
Does street photography make you a better photographer? The definition of street photography is often debated. For me, it means, at its core; taking non staged spontaneous pictures of people within their environment in a city or within a place. By doing so showing a fleeting moment caught in time. A moment frozen in time…
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UN-SEEN in Cambodia documentary photobook by Elly Valk
Text by Michael Klinkhamer. UN-SEEN is a gripping documentary photobook by Elly Valk that shows us the close encounter of a Dutch sociologist and photographer with a common rural Cambodian family. Like so many Khmers, they are still living with the wounds and scars of the past wars. “Living in a war zone for 30…
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Cars & Motorbikes shoots by Michael Klinkhamer Fotografie Studio Amsterdam
Selection of remarkable international road trips and photoshoots in Europe for magazines and some of the best automobile manufactures in the world. Porsche Boxter S Roadtrip on the Route Napoleon in France. (official press kit images Porsche A.G. production ©MK) BMW 6 Series shoot in Normandy at Omaha Beach. Station Azur Shoot for Porsche in the Cote…
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Peter Beard;‘I am a full time escapist’
Peter Beard, an interview in Manhattan, N.Y.C 2012. Words: Michael Klinkhamer.Photography: Peter Beard, Michael Klinkhamer, Pirelli, Taschen.First published in Big Black Book magazine. and GUP, special edition booklet. Wherever he is, at a New York nightclub or deep in the African wilderness, the world famous nature and fashion photographer, pop-art artist, adventurer, womanizer, party animal…
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The Art of Portrait Photography
Peter Klashorst is after 60 years of making art a certified “art barbarian” and one of the last art Mohicans. He was at a very young age confident enough to sell his first paintings and never stopped.
