Street photography : three summer Dam stories


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For Sunday Street day, I’m digging up some summer Dam stories today, made earlier this year, on the Dam square in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (July 2014)

Pirates on the Dam
Pirates on the Dam

 

Street performer - spinning on his head
Street performer – spinning on his head

 

TWO birds in the hand is worth...
TWO birds in the hand is worth…

Streets of Amsterdam in colour


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It’s Sunday Street day again, and for today, I picked 3 coloured street-photo’s.

 

‘Streets of Amsterdam’-series

No time for Rolex

No time for Rolex
No time for Rolex

 

‘Streets of Amsterdam’-series

Seem to agree

Seem to agree
Seem to agree

 

‘Streets of Amsterdam’-series

Leashed

Leashed
Leashed

Young working hands 03


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Today it’s time for the third photo from the mini-series I made on the Vocational Trainingmarket in Leiden (*). This time the hands of the young girl who was kneading the bread in the photo here . I turned these photo’s into black and white and added a grain filter. I want to put them together into a collage-poster – by following my blogs you’ll be able to see the step by step process.

See also:
Young, working hands 01

Young, working hands 02

(*)For more info and photo’s of the Vocational Training market, see my blog post here.

Young working hands 03
The hands of a young girl student at the ROC while kneading dough

Sunday Street Day


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It’s Sunday Street day, and we’re going for a duo again 🙂

‘Streets of Amsterdam’-series

The one and the others

The one and the others
Amsterdam Street photography – The one and the others

‘Streets of Amsterdam’-series

Bodyworks Selfies

Bodyworks selfies
Bodyworks selfies

Young working hands 02


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Here is the second photo from the mini-series I made on the Vocational Trainingmarket in Leiden (*). It’s the hands of two young students manicure showing treating the hands of two interested girls. I turned these photo’s into black and white and added a grain filter. I want to put them together into a collage-poster – by following my blogs you’ll be able to see the step by step process.

See also:
Young, working hands 01

(*)For more info and photo’s of the Vocational Training market, see my blog post here.

 

Young working hands 2
Two girls students manicure treating the hands of two interested girls

Young people in vocational training, skilful and motivated.


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Yesterday I was in Leiden, a small historic town in the Netherlands. I wanted to make a photo-reportage about the International Photo Festival in Leiden – which I did – but then happened to walk into a totally different event.

On one of the church squares where the displays with photo’s were set up, a large crowd of people had gathered before the entrance of the church. I wondered what was going on, saw a lady with a camera who was obviously a press photographer or reporter, and asked her whether she could tell me more. She told me that in half an hour, the official opening would take place of a two- day info market, in which vocational training schools would present themselves to young potential students, who will soon have to make their choice for a vocational training next year. That sounded quite interesting to me, so I decided to stay around and make a photo-reportage about this event as well.

The total story and a selection of the photo’s I made on the vocational training info-market you can find here on Demotix. I really loved to see how young people who are already in vocational training were eager to demonstrate their skills, and share about it with others.

There were a few more images that just didn’t make it into my Demotix story any more, but I like to show them here:

ROC student kneading dough
ROC student kneading dough
Building on a wooden construction
Building on a wooden construction
Group of boys show interest in metal instrument parts
Group of boys show interest in metal instrument parts
Paramedics training: first aid can save lives...
Paramedics training: first aid can save lives…

Behind the back talking


Amsterdam street photography - two young people at a café terrace talking behind the back of an elderly man
Behind the back talking

 

‘Streets of Amsterdam’-series

Would the older man not hear what the young people behind him are talking? Is he daydreaming or is he secretly eavesdropping? What do you think?