During the summer of 2011 the Horn of Africa suffered from extreme drought. The combination of the Somalian civil war and the lack of water supply made Somalian citizens flee to refugee camps in Dadaab, Kenya. Journalist Ine Roox and I were commissioned by the newspaper De Standaard to look into the situation on-site. Together Dadaab's three temporary settlements form the largest refugee camp in the world.

Commissioned by the newspaper De Standaard Ine Roox and I went to Cairo, Egypt, November 2011. Egypt is holding its first parliamentary election nine months after the abdication - caused by the civil resistance - of Hosni Mubarak. The army though tightens its grip on the situation and the people. The mother of a prominent Egyptian blogger has gone on hunger strike to protest her son’s detention. A know Egyptian television reporter resigned because of the growing interference by the army. A documentary about Cairo just before the first parlimentary election.

Story about the heavy floods in Pakistan during the summer of 2010.

Three months after the earthquake Katrijn and journalist Corry Hancké went back to Haiti to collect impressions and stories for the newspaper De Standaard. They arrived a few weeks before the rainy season would start. The international community promised almost 10 million dollars for the redevelopment but in the capital Port-au-Prince the victims have only met with emergency relief. The coverages appaered in de newspaper De Standaard.

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The world’s biggest rollerblading gathering of 2009 was being held in Eindhoven. I set out for Winterclash asked by NRC Next (newspaper of The Netherlands). Throughout the day several skaters competed against each other in an elimination race.

A collection of covers for the literary magazine De Standaard der Letteren

Coverage of two festivals: Camping Rotterdam and Motel Mozaïk

The Dutch newspaper NRC next asked me to attend two festivals in Rotterdam. A colourful mixture of people in moterhomes playing around with all sorts of things and beauty salons on grass strips.

A visual report on the silent area Dender-Mark. I stayed a few days in Viane and photographed the local silent nature reserve as an assignment for Centrum Waerbeke.

Coverage about youth camps
I visited several youth camps during the summer of 2009. The photos appeared in the newspaper De Standaard.

Hilde Masui found 15 known and less known women from over 50 willing to participate in honest talking. They were about 18 years old in the wonderful year of 1968. Theirs was a generation literally born into a new world, with no memories of great wars and perhaps because of that provided with bright clean self-consciousness and the great feeling that a lot was possible and potentially possible.

These women from various backgrounds talk about part of their life during a revolutionary time, about their jobs, their view on people and things. A lively picture of the first female postwar generation with portraits made by Katrijn Van Giel. A surprising gift for everyone who considers herself part of this generation!

6,5 billion different humans walk this earth. For some of them this difference is called a disability. Want to try looking with a visual disability? Have a look at www.maks.be with a new pair of eyes. From a hazy look to being blind as a bat.

“I am a hard drive where some of the data has been wiped off”, says Sinan (18). Maks! comes up with a special issue on limitations/disabilities. Sinan talks about his car crash, Anylem speaks about a life full of bombs and Oke tells us about life as an albino.

How to survive in the city? I designed costumes that make life in the city easier to bear/bare.

Fashion designer Soner Cetin took care of the realisation of the costumes. Marie Vandecaveye posed as a model while the make up was done by Nevin Sertkaya. Also many thanks to Hilde Vanleuven and Griet Wouters.

A collection of photos taken somewhere out there, on our blue planet.