Imaging The Netherlands 007: Coffeeshop in BREDA (NB)

A personal selection of photographs with their stories.

007: Coffeeshop

For foreigners, it must be confusing. In the Netherlands, you go to a café for some beer and snacks, while the – orginally French – word itself suggests that it must be a location for some fresh coffee. Let’s try the English word then: ‘coffeeshop’. And again, you won’t find the favorite hot drink  as the main product on this location. In coffeeshops, you can buy and use – in small amounts – certain softdrugs. Those drugs aren’t found in drugstores. Since their existence, coffeeshops are sources of many discussions and controversies. This coffeeshop was in the center of Breda, at a safe distance from primary and highschools, just as the law dictates.

© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2010, 2017

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Imaging Brazil 317: Lizard on the Wall in Belo Horizonte, MG (2011)

A personal selection of photographs with their stories.

317: Lizard on the wall

In a tropical country like Brazil, you regularly encounter cold-blooded animals in your home. Frogs and toads accidentally jump over your threshold, while geckos and little lizards hunt down the walls for insects in your living room. They are therefore useful animals, although not everyone is happy with their presence; many are even afraid of them. At least it’s a little shock to find such a reptile on an inner wall. Most Brazilians leave them in peace; the reptiles go away spontaneously, searching for their prey, possibly in another house.

© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2011, 2017