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In Via PanAm Kadir travels from Chile to Alaska, covering 15 countries along the Pan-American Highway, investigating contemporary migration in the Americas. Kadir left Tierra del Fuego in southern Chile in March 2011 and will reach Deadhorse in northern Alaska in March 2012. You can follow Kadir via his blog (click here)
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Last August, US combat troops left Iraq after seven years of military presence in the country, nevertheless still 50,000 troops remain. With still no government in place and under the threats of regular bombing attacks, the population is trying to live a life of some normalcy, always surrounded by check points and Iraqi soldiers.
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After two Intifadas and a blockade that has lasted for more then two years now, the 1.6 million people of Gaza feel abandoned. There is a lack of everything, and everyone struggles. Despite all the media coverage, however, one critical aspect of the Gazans struggle to survive has been overlooked: water. ‘If nothing changes, Gaza will have NO drinkable water in ten years time.
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Photographer Kadir van Lohuizen and writer Abdelkader Benali have spent two weeks with the extended Ezbet Abu Draboo family. They live in an area named after the family, north of Gaza city. The area has been almost completely destroyed during the Israeli offensive.
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January/February 2010 - June 2010
The Clerger family lived in a house in the area of Carrefour, Port au Prince, Haiti. The parents Nelvis (55), his wife Elvire (45) and their seven children. Nelvis is a construction worker and build his house with his own hands in the last 21 years.
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The journey of a diamond - An extensive photo journalistic research into the diamond industry. Covering nine countries (Angola, Sierra Leone, DR Congo, Belgium, India, France, Holland, United Kingdom), the story shows the roads a diamond takes from the mines in Africa to the consumer in the western world (2004 – 2005)
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September 2005 - February 2010
Despite the fact that mainstream media has moved on to the next story after Hurricane Katrina, daily life continues to be a struggle for survivors. Now, three years later, survivors are scattered over the United States, often unable to return home. Public housing in New Orleans, which had been home for thousands of families before the storm, was demolished in the first few months of 2008.
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