‘Lost Art’: Amerikaanse kunstenares laat schilderijen achter op straat (TPO/Blendle)

'Zij nemen gewone voorwerpen en zetten ze in musea, ik neem kunst en zet het op straat.'

Lees hier het hele artikel. 

They fixed the monument on Tahrir (photos)

‘We willen democratie, maar worden afgescheept met een lelijk monument’

Lees hier (of hier) de hele column.

Pictures: Tahrir, July 26th 2013

Tahrir, July 26th 2013, a set on Flickr.

Pictures: Clashes near Tahrir, July 5th 2013

Clashes near Tahrir July 5th 2013, a set on Flickr.

Video: clashes near Tahrir square, July 5th 2013

Some people in front of me getting hit by birdshot. You can hear the pellets disperse on the ground.
The Muslim Brotherhood side, filmed from the 6th of October bridge. You can hear a machine-gun being used, most likely coming from the other side (the 'revolutionaries'), because the Brothers suddenly all start running away. I'd run too if someone was pointing a machine-gun at me.

Random photo of the day (3): Protester resting

As my Flickr account currently holds well over 1500 photos, I thought it would be a fun idea to occasionally show a random one here.

Here's one I took on the 25th of January 2013, on the second anniversary of the Egyptian revolution, when downtown Cairo was a mess, with riots in various places throughout the city. 

Picture: Clashes on the Garden City corniche yesterday

This was the situation on the Garden City corniche yesterday afternoon. It was very windy and therefore difficult to take photos, with smoke, sand and tear gas blowing everywhere. My safety goggles came in very handy.
On my way out, I got harassed by some asshole wearing a balaclava, swinging around a molotov cocktail that he had prepared. He demanded I deleted pictures I took of him, which I did, after he became very threatening and started yanking my camera strap and pushing me. I'm sure there's at least 50 other photographers that have pictures of him, so his action was a little futile. Also, since he was wearing a ski mask, nobody would have recognised him anyway.
But yeah, I was one of the last photographers to leave the scene, so I got singled out and picked on. Apparently that's how it works. I slapped him in the face and managed to get out when he got a little too agitated and tried to rip off my gas mask, though.


The chaos increased after dark, when protesters managed to steal to police vans and set them on fire, one of them in the middle of Tahrir square. I missed out on all that, because I was stuck at home filing photos. You win some, you lose some.
They were shooting rubber bullets and birdshot at that point, though, so even if I had had time, I probably wouldn't have gone in anyway. I've had enough injuries for this week.

More mayhem this way. 

Pictures: January 24th & January 25th

25th Jan 2013, a set on Flickr.

And here are some shots I took on the 24th of January.