https://www.victoriamoerckphotography.com/enter daily 1.0 2021-05-26 https://www.victoriamoerckphotography.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-02-24 https://www.victoriamoerckphotography.com/portrait2 daily 0.75 2021-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1614610543364-CSWS7B6UZW7RZY9SX3V5/portr%C3%A6t3.jpg Portrait Jens on the beach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1614614217868-F6RROJU8CP3BQ1LZK82S/Yamana+Yoshiyuki_2+copy.jpg Portrait Japanese architect Yamana Yoshiyuki. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1614676134123-R5DK8JU91ZL8O7436V3M/ZA_433.JPG Portrait Lupao, just returned from the Xhosa male initiation ceremony, Ulwaluko. Port Elizabeth, South Africa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1614675944147-7HIRH20NYS6V5AQ5XOYA/Mau_stills__2_410-1.jpg Portrait Ogiek activist Saaya Wilson (right) with his father. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1615281616739-XFML3QQAUQVPSGIXCIL0/portr%C3%A6t7_2.jpg Portrait Luis with adopted kitten, Guadeloupe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1614610211209-X9E7A4GV3PD5G6VWB3YA/YIE_final_VictoriaMoerck_02.JPG Portrait Maja at home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1614676431296-B0MD9D2VYXPFN9AFKLJH/Milele_udvalg_01.JPG Portrait Emily and Dan, Kisumu, Kenya. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1614675883625-ARNSGC3MY39RL81JRD3H/MartialArts_301-1.JPG Portrait Yutakhun khom fighter Chan Rothana. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1614610075909-1CZESJ06RY9CI3GLUTBJ/30+KUL+Murakami+02.jpg Portrait Japanese author Haruki Murakami at his office in Tokyo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1614675816836-L8COVWUBUD0EOT9LNVAC/22+LIV+Vigga+Bro+01.jpg Portrait Danish actress Vigga Bro. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1615281735877-15ZXJ97EREMCYX1X1F95/IKC_Rahma_lille.jpg Portrait Rahma was born in Denmark to Somali parents. She has lived in Denmark her entire life and feels Danish. However, in the eyes of the state, she is not. Rahma has to go through a long, bureaucratic and expensive process to obtain citizenship, the outcome of which worries her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1614676361028-9JQYZ1KICTQMRKTWCYT0/Phlake_presse_VMM_027.JPG Portrait Danish pop duo Phlake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1614603095029-MITJYZECYDX3NAD9JNPH/Milele_udvalg_05.JPG Portrait Marte and Clive in Kisumu, Kenya. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1615281404173-IOZCUWILZ3GYQEBWBELE/Zanele_117-1.jpg Portrait South African sangoma Zanele. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1614613840803-MDAVT3TKDHD1SVTNLXZB/portr%C3%A6t4+copy.jpg Portrait Businesswoman and beauty enthusiast Birgitte “Powerwoman“ Witzel. https://www.victoriamoerckphotography.com/aymans-diary daily 0.75 2021-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1614679157578-2O31IQAGDPNEFTW27D3K/Ayman_web_03.JPG Born a refugee Ayman’s favourite subject is math, but he likes English too. He hopes that if he gets really good at English, it might make it easier to leave Lebanon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1614679471114-OWC72IATO0OCML9XB3R2/Ayman_web_06.JPG Born a refugee Immediately after school Ayman hurries home to have lunch with his sister and mother. Ayman’s mother has been in mourning since his father suddenly died from a cerebral hemorrhage four weeks ago. According to her faith she must mourn inside the house for four months, so Ayman wants to keep her company. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1614679545739-3YNTLWQA5HZGMW623S5A/Ayman_web_07.jpg Born a refugee A large part of the Ayman’s afternoons are spent zooming around the streets with his brother Ayham. The brothers share a scooter and Ayman taught himself to ride it when he was just ten. “I have to be back home at 5pm, because I receive private lessons in English. My family hopes I can get a good education and provide for all of us, but I worry how long we’ll be able to afford my school”, says Ayman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1614679286052-JRI658E7353UQ18NWG2X/Ayman_web_02.JPG Born a refugee Ayman walks his little sister Bayan to school every day and makes sure she gets there safely. “Some places, there are so many power lines that you can’t see the sky. We have to be careful when walking, once my brother got a bad electric shock, because he touched a power line”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1614679612213-QOGS9018UBDUNP03JUI4/Ayman_web_08.JPG Born a refugee Aymans brother Amjad works at an internet café, so Ayman can play his favourite game PopG for free. When their father died, Amjad became the head of the family. He works 11 hours a day to add to the subsidy the family is given beacuse of their refugee status, but the budget is still tight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1614679101976-JE9C7F0U5CF5RYXITGTE/Ayman_web_01.JPG Born a refugee https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1614679407765-LHMS17WGFIF2T8WA6PLD/Ayman_web_04.jpg Born a refugee It’s important to Ayman to do well in school. He wants to make his mother proud and honor the promise he made to his father before he died to become a nurse like him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1614679657125-QWH3DC9AK8006UP1QZBV/Ayman_web_09.JPG Born a refugee His father’s ring has become Ayman’s most prized possession. He wants to wear it all the time, but he’s afraid he’ll lose it, so it mostly stays in his room. Every night Ayman has trouble sleeping, as he lies awake thinking of his father. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1615973587186-JTYH4CM2QHVKBG5CKOFP/Ayman_web_05.JPG Born a refugee Ayman goes to an all boy’s school. There are 850 student, all of them Palestians. https://www.victoriamoerckphotography.com/mau-forest daily 0.75 2021-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1614963741815-K6T77R9JWBFRBXZ87SW6/Mau_1014-1.jpg Ogiek Joseph Mako Wuama, 65, will never forget the day his village was razed during the first evictions in 1986. “We refer to it as “the war” because that’s what it felt like. A war zone. The police burned our houses and raped women and children. They even killed some of our Elders, the most important members of our community. Since that day, the Ogiek have been scattered”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1614963851470-6GQYMB1TN42FBVQIYU6L/Mau_0076-1.jpg Ogiek https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1614964093900-NZP3V29BYUOSHC9N0E4C/Mau_stills__2_375-1.jpg Ogiek https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1614963722137-M6M1NWJ3GQO175GK2JSU/Mau_0126-1.jpg Ogiek https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1614963705394-BX9JVJA000T3RK0ZBYUP/Mau_0999-1.JPG Ogiek “I no longer feel safe in the forest of my ancestors,” says David Kimsoi Nagol, 49. “Lots of criminals go here and we cannot even trust the Kenya Wildlife Service officers. Sometimes they harrass us when we go to collect honey. When I finally reach my beehives, I often find that the trees they were in have been cut down. It’s a constant reminder that the forest is longer for us”. https://www.victoriamoerckphotography.com/once-1 daily 0.75 2021-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617702607322-6DYTH05SXO8HQGAR1UNR/KampongSpeu_mountain3.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617277856616-IB2U4SCUGZJ0DED81I93/dobbelt2_SenMon.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617286426583-4D9MMD453Y1V2QJVFJZU/Borey.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617296524139-NACZPC49K48MZED5FZ2H/dobbelt_KohPich.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617297933466-AZYPFYXSOOSMJ8J57TP8/DSC08809-1+copy.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" “We used to get good catches with just a small net,” says Mot Sopha, a Koh Sralao fisher woman. “Now we need a huge one just to catch something. We had to loan money from the bank to afford the net. If we do not catch anything, we can pay off the loan and then it just grows and grows”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617284531967-UVE3O3ZP3129XCW9ZIFH/WaterFestival3.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" During the day, colourful longboats manned by crews from all of Cambodia’s 25 provinces compete on the waters. As darkness falls, the river is illuminated by huge prams carrying tall LED advertising columns representing various ministries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617788234646-BJ5VJALX64TWOX6MM4Z9/last.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1616410018523-DH31LMEJBUFTSIDW52G1/DSC08894_2.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617287242010-NJBQ2ES6C996JCO4YN0M/PPskyline.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617293765886-AN40S1I36YQHFVVPIL5E/Lim%26Ouch.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" Lim Kimsor (left) and Oud Rydy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617710336560-4SMPLYGI9Q7PPEGD7QAJ/CC_Borey2.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617299803302-360RX7Y7K9ECRXG9TJIP/dobbelt_KohSralao2.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617267412485-HM9I1OYT65Y8L4VXKMGS/dobbelt1_SenMon.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617284325248-ABIC26K84DR533NEIO95/WaterFestival2.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" The yearly Water and Moon Festival, Bon Om Touk, draws millions of Cambodians from the provinces to the urban river banks of Phnom Penh, where the Tonlé Sap and Mekong Rivers meet. The tradition dates back hundreds of years and marks the end of the monsoon season and the coming of the harvest moon. At this time, the Tonlé Sap changes course as the only river in the world. The water masses flow North again, leaving sediments and silt which nourishes the soil and fish that provides livelihood for large parts of the population. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617696332361-U3OEBDJJQBL29BGLRMFE/KampongSpeu_mountain.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617300036130-ILLUNQAPQRPD0DSZOY23/image-asset.jpeg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617269195314-I9ZIOH8C4DYWY67BOCAQ/SenMon_logs.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617291496930-2GBTFF38B726DVOPV0FJ/ChroyChangvarFishingCommunity4.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617782099844-N13SCSA8CCDMDDHGM3NR/KimHeang.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617298471782-5TGWEX6C4FP4158NVQHH/dobbelt_KohKong.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617787718682-S5U5E7P7NUL7KIQGF5JZ/dobbelt_landfill3_Lom.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617300602070-KCONM67JR1F3MTKRDZZE/KohSralao_sand.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617701887369-G8OXYB8KZ6YMWJC0EIRM/dobbelt_KSclinic.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617297563376-JG1R95VE1OBH7DYS3R1D/KohKong2.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617265660706-4MR4F1MRRT7L0C11RHPV/DSC00547-1-Recovered.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" Among the most important tales of the Bunong people is the tale of the elephants. Once, a group of Bunong gatherers walking through the forest accidentally touched a poisonous plant. Their skin started itching terribly. They scratched and scratched until their skin became tough and thick and their hands and feet hardened. Without the use of their hands, they could only eat bamboo and leaves and had to venture deep into the forest to fill their stomachs. In time, their noses turned into trunks and they forgot the language of the humans. Because of this mythical connection, the Bunong people see elephants as distant relatives and therefore part of the family. Before the Khmer Rouge took power, elephants were used for working fields and roamed the forests in between tasks, but the regime confiscated all the elephants for use in labor camps. With a disappearing natural habitat and rampant poaching, the elephants never made a comeback in the Cambodian forests after the regime fell. Today they are all but extinct and mainly used as a tourist attraction. Princess here is one of five elephants that have retired at the NGO Mondulkiri Project. For years, these elephants have been lugging tourists around Angkor Wat or illegal timber across the Vietnamese border. But for now they are safe here, in a part of the forest that the Mondulkiri Project rents and protects against loggers and poachers. The contract will expire in 25 years and so only time will tell what happens to Princess and the others then. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617701264894-1J9NS9YMZTVTTQQSQFOQ/KampongSpeu_traffic.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617700910407-NYY79V7L46SZ5PSKH08L/dobbelt_KS_Voeun.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617700666554-SEDTJL5PK9SRW1Z951IE/dobbelt_KS.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617289916713-GZLD7RBGE3PI3Z3WET7Y/dobbelt1_CC.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617096133097-PEY76YEB6Y1U07HELTOQ/DSC08851.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617297287958-VXT1CWTRR4Z97AAIPZ2L/KohKong.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617291285628-YT25SEA6330YB69756IU/KohPich.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617280741088-Q8HIWRIBMQX4FDQGZ07Z/DSC08936-1.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617281424947-80T5C9RVYMJM8H1JRQKO/SimChandin.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617280310524-C44D693SO20S86QHYG21/dobbelt3_SenMon.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617283705836-XYMPBHSV2QSIUXCIQFHF/WaterFestival1.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1617788175114-LG6S4OUGVPC7B5UCQ8HZ/Landfill_2.jpg "Once, the mountains were ours" https://www.victoriamoerckphotography.com/palestinians-vertical daily 0.75 2021-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1615823732358-RPRLPFPIBEGMEPWH1MQR/Artikel2_10_57.jpg Lebanon's forgotten Palestinians https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1615817456101-TVQRP3K12BM3AR9EZW5L/Artikel2_6+copy.jpg Lebanon's forgotten Palestinians https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1615816386185-ICURF00X5S03MLJD7ZIV/Artikel2_1_57.jpg Lebanon's forgotten Palestinians https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1615816260110-UO7ZA33SD8P60V0G81ZR/Artikel2_2+.jpg Lebanon's forgotten Palestinians https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1615823468468-XPJ451P16D11X3L310B9/Artikel2_8-57+copy.jpg Lebanon's forgotten Palestinians https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1615816278366-QHF3DU7YVL41O6203JL1/Untitled-1_3.jpg Lebanon's forgotten Palestinians https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1615823507056-MWWK30J5JMVXA4WRTZ85/Untitled-2.jpg Lebanon's forgotten Palestinians https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59189ea6893fc0567abf13bc/1615816908444-KZOGPGUUUWW723G6H0B5/Artikel2_9+copy_57.jpg Lebanon's forgotten Palestinians https://www.victoriamoerckphotography.com/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2024-12-10