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Pure life in the middle of nowhere

Poverty has many different faces. In an over-populated city like Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, it is simply harrowing. The uncountable street children, pedlars and beggars -with or without lease babies used for begging- just try to survive every single day. Once outside the chaos of the city the poverty looks different, milder. Like in Kishoreganj, one of the 64 districts in... Read More

Iceland, the land of ice and fire

Iceland is known by its woolly Icelandic horses, frozen waterfalls, blue coloured glaciers and glacier lakes. 11% of the island is covered with ice in the form of glaciers. However, water is not the only element. The volcanic and geothermal activity is a spectacular natural wonder. Moreover, the geothermal heat is used for the next generation of electricity and heating. For 1We... Read More

Himba, the red people of Namibia

In spite of the marching globalization, there are still populations who succeed in living their life according to ancient traditions. Such as the Himba people, an indigenous tribe who predominantly live in the dry ‘Kaokoveld’ in north-western Namibia. For 1We Unlimited, photographers Geurt Besselink and Mirjam Langelaar spent one day with these red people of Namibia. As... Read More

Svalbard… a land without footprints

The hard facts: sea levels are rising, global warming continues as the greenhouse phenomenon increases rather than decreases. The far-reaching consequences of global warming are already evident in nature: warmer climates, rising global temperatures which will speed up the melting of glaciers and ice caps causing early ice thaw on rivers and lakes and significant changes to our... Read More