PERSONAL – jeremy

Black Sea Symphony I

jeremy — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 16:54:43 +0000

In September 2009 I embarked on a journey around the Black Sea. The objective was to capture the great variety of cultures and identities of this region tucked between Europe and Asia. On my travel map appeared exciting names: Turkey, Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria and Crimea. I had little knowledge of the region’s history, except that it had long been a battleground for ideological confrontations and had undergone multiple political variations; communism being the most recent and influential of them all.
Black Sea Symphony I is the first sequence of a long-term project. In 2011, I returned to the Black Sea to complete the loop.

Black Sea Symphony II

jeremy — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 21:20:40 +0000

In September 2009 I embarked on a journey around the Black Sea. The objective was to capture the great variety of cultures and identities of this region tucked between Europe and Asia. On my travel map appeared exciting names: Turkey, Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria and Crimea. I had little knowledge of the region’s history, except that it had long been a battleground for ideological confrontations and had undergone multiple political variations; communism being the most recent and influential of them all.
Black Sea Symphony Part II is the second sequence of this long-term project.

In Hussain’s Name

jeremy — Sat, 20 Dec 2014 20:33:47 +0000

Every year, Shi’a Muslims commemorate the martyrdom of Hussain ibn Ali, the grandson of Muhammad. This religious observance called Ashura occurs on the 10th day of Muharram, the first month of the islamic calendar. During 40 days Shi’a mourn the death of their third Imam and his family, killed in Kerbala in 680 AD. These photographies were taken in Tehran’s Grand Bazar on the Day of Arbaeen, the commemoration putting an end to this mourning period.

« Waiting for a miracle »

jeremy — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 14:40:06 +0000

Lourdes is a small market town lying in the foothills of the Pyrenees. In 1858 the city rose to prominence in France and abroad due to the Marian apparitions seen by an illiterate peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous. Shortly after the city became one of the most important sites of pilgrimage and religious tourism in the world. Today Lourdes hosts around six million visitors every year. This constant stream of pilgrims and tourists transformed quiet Lourdes into the second most important center of tourism in France. With about 270 hotels, the town has the second greatest number of accommodations per square kilometre after Paris.

According to believers, the Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette Soubirous on a total of eighteen occasions. No wonder Lourdes has become a major place of miraculous healings. An estimated 200 million people have visited the shrine (“Le Sanctuaire”) since 1860 and the Roman Catholic Church has officially recognized 69 healings considered miraculous. On Assumption Day, pilgrims from all corners of the world flock to Lourdes hoping for a miracle to happen. The waiting time can be long and the prayers unfruitful but the faith remains strong. I didn’t get to see the Virgin Mary and these photographs are no miracle but if you like them and decide to publish some of them it would make Mary, Bernadette and myself very happy.