three generations

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as I was quite often ask to pose for a photo together with chinese people (i guess a european man with a ponytail is regarded as even more interesting than a "normal" foreigner) i pretty soon lost my shyness and asked people to allow me make a picture of them. this way the group portrait of the three generations was realized.

... and sometimes of course i didn't ask but tried my best to "steal" a shot. i just couldn't resist this one.

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kalmunai students iv

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before you are afraid that this turns into a monothematic blog of kid pics - these are the last ones i'd like to show from kalmunai. sri lanka again experiences a wave of violence, and the east coast i visited 3 weeks ago is now more or less a no-go-area for foreigners.

those kids have grown up in the civil war, and whilst kalmunai itself has not been in the center of real war-like actions, road block everywhere and killings in the villages have always been present since more than 25 years.

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