back in belgium

Paris was very good. The editors were pleased with my work and Paris Match and GQ are even interested in working together with me. :-)

This evening I will go to a witchcraft festival in Belgium near Antwerpen and stay one night. This will be the first time, I’m meeting witches in Belgium, I’m looking forward to this!

Two weeks ago I have photographed a witches wedding (called handfasting) in Bochum, Germany.

I will put some pictures online soon.

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Paris

I am in Paris, have appointments with LeMonde, New York Times, Paris Match, Marianne, Marie-Claire and GQ so far to show my work and hopefully sell something. Paris is beautiful, but I have a little cold… But I am optimistic that its gone by tomorrow.

Just quickly what I did since I am back from Colombia and New York: I went to England to a witches-camping, I visited my friend Belinda (which I met in Newzealand) in Berlin together with my boyfriend, I went to Perpignan to the Visa pour l image-festival (where my work was projected on wednesday night :-) ) and the rest of the time I spend working on my images.

I need to do some advertisement for couchsurfing.com -> this is sooo great; you find everywhere in the world, in every city people that let you sleep for free on their couch. They all have their profile and references, so there is still a little risk but I’d say the same risk as in a hostel. Now I am couchsurfing again in Paris, its nice to be with people that know the city and you are not alone!

Another great thing is www.mitfahrgelegenheit.de oder covoiturage.com , this is a system where someone who is driving to a specific place posts it on the list and if you need to go there too, you just call them and share the ride in their car (or you drive yourself). When we went to Berlin we almost didn’t pay for anything… you can travel so much and soo cheap!

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witchcraft

As one of the fasted growing religious movements, neo-paganism scatters around Europe, the USA and the rest of the Western World. There are extremely diverse paths with beliefs that range widely from polytheism to animism, to pantheism and other paradigms. The largest Neopagan movements are Wicca and the Druidism, whose followers often call themself witches (or druids) and believe in magic, witchcraft and energy. They respect their environment and celebrate eight Sabbaths a year were they praise the nature and often hold rituals on full moons. It is a small community, not well known, but with its own organizations, festivals, magazines, shops, workshops, gatherings and ceremonies. Many of them can be found in the United States and England.

I followed many different groups and solitary witches in many different places to have a look inside of the spiritual practices of this new belief.
If you want to know more about this religion, have a look here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/paganism/subdivisions/wicca.shtml

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