awakening 70s

Deel een verhaal over iemand die een positieve invloed op je leven heeft gehad.

in my teenage years, the late years of flower power, people were freeing themselves from the yoke of Christian social mores and petty-bourgeois morality

I have grasped the freedom-happiness-morality of the hippy movement with both arms

awakening 70s of the Hippies

freedom to be

Wat betekent vrijheid voor jou?

in essence, freedom is an absolute condition for me to be able to live, to become who I deeply want to be

i respect the freedom of others, my fellow man to become also

freedom: a manifest fundamental right

my essentials: freedom & creativity

authorities

Met welke prominente figuur ben je het het vaakst oneens?

in my experience, the people who give shape and content to the public authorities have moved from independent case handlers to interpreters of their personal views

i see a similar development in the media: independent news gathering regularly receives the opinion of the journalists who produce it

and I see that as a general development, for example on social media: the doggedness and brutal hardness with which people have to express their position

and I recognize that in our world leaders, who unabashedly send us ‘the people’ into the battlefields

who do I actually see when I stand in front of the mirror?

ambitiously

Wat is je carrièreplan?

after my retirement next year, two new career goals:

an exhibition of my photo work at the annual ‘Recontres d’Arles’, even if it is just a corner in one of the exhibition spaces

the further rollout and development of the personal development programs ‘the Competent Man’ and ‘the Community Man’ together with experts to empower my fellow people

my body is aging, but my mind is rejuvenating

small talks

Wat doe je om betrokken te zijn bij de gemeenschap?

I have a chat with those I meet about everyday things, surprisingly enough this often has a disarming effect and a conversation always arises

sometimes short, sometimes longer or even intimate

surrounding small talks

The Wizard of Oz

Welke baan zou je voor één dag willen hebben?

and then I would try even harder to develop ‘love and good‘ in people forever

like this ‘Paseo con Mariposa’ of Ripolles expresses: like a child so happy for and with everything in the world

the only way

to settle, is to be satisfied with what you got, because in 1947 the world tried to alleviate the suffering and prevent a recurrence, and today it turns out…

you give an inch, they take a yard

how much oppression can people withstand without losing their dignity

it is up to the world to put a stop to this self-declared chosen people

stop the innocent killing, it’s the only way

reality, AI or fake

Alison Jackson shows with her series ‘Truth is Dead’ that the distinction is fragile

After life stream and photo manipulation software, AI is the next challenge for photographers; it forces the photographer to new expressions

accept the challenge

any brand name…

Wat zijn je favorieten merken en waarom?

….provided that it is primarily at the service of me as a user, and only secondarily for its own benefit

by the way,

I only show brand names in exceptional cases, because I don’t want to hide quality behind an image

ask for advice…

Noem de mensen die je bewondert en bij wie je om advies vraagt.

that is a confronting question!!

Thinking about the question, I have to conclude that I often try to find the answer myself through public sources of information, I am not quick to ask someone else for advice, coincidentally two weeks ago I tried ChatGPT…

I found the response very useful for simple questions, for more substantive questions, involving human involvement, I became more reserved, more critical, so to speak,

asking people for advice, looking it up myself, using AI, ….the question from now on becomes:

who can I ask for what advice?