En ik kan alleen maar denken…

Wat als ze oud zijn. Hun verhalen slechts nog voortbestaan in zwakke anekdotes. Waar het verplegend personeel ze teder wast en instopt. Waar hun land ze is vergeten en de oorlog is vervlogen.

Ze zachtjes schommelen in hun stoel, hun passie is gedoofd en de strijd is gestreden. Ooit op handen gedragen, nu voorzichtig neergelegd

Text: Elske Helmich

Translated text

And all I can think …

What about when they are old. Their stories nothing but feeble anecdotes. Where the nursing staff gently washes them and tenderly tucks them in. Where their country has fogotten them and the war has fleeted.

Softly rocking in their chairs, their passion extinguished and the battle fought. Once lauded and celebrated, now carfully laid down.

Translation: Peter-Jan Vermeij

Photo
of the Week

-project-

..started by Maarten displaying his weekly photographic endeavors. It has grown since then into a platform for authors and photographers to colaborate in a search of what text and image are to each other.

website P.o.t.W.

Maarten
Zeehandelaar

-photographer-

..graduated as a philosopher at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Due to various life altering choices he now lives in Rio de Janeiro working as a freelance photographer.

website Maarten

Peter-Jan
Vermeij

-author/translator-

..is a writing editor and a translating writer - with his contributions to Photo of the Week he is mainly trying to get a handle on what could be a writer's equivalent of the photographer's use of light.

website Peter-Jan

Elske
Helmich

-author-

..graduated from the Performing Arts School in Utrecht, The Netherlands, and is now running workshops that use drama-based learning for teambuilding.

website Elske