A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
048: Playing music at Castelo dos Mouros
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A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
035: Street musician
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© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 1999, 2001, 2003, 2017
A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
055: Lone musician on canal bridge
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© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2010, 2017
A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
026: Wandering guitar player
Most Dutch living at some distance from the Dutch capital know it already: whatever you can imagine, you’ll meet that in Amsterdam. Anything that is odd, crazy, weird, it’s there. Sometimes, Amsterdam appears to be a city without limits, where you can meet people pushing their limits, people who have no limits. Everything sees to be possible. And if not, people just do. They just do what they want to do. Even then they are lacking talent, skills for that. Like this man, wandering, with his acoustic guitar. People in the street stopped their activities, when he walked past them. He was singing, but he clearly didn’t have the talent for that. Absolutely not. But he was just doing what he loved to do: playing guitar and singing in the streets. And gaining little money too!
© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2010, 2017
A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
022: Accordion street musician
When I visited Amsterdam on a cold but sunny day in March, I walked in the historic center for some hours. And behaved like an average tourist: looking around, from left to right, from street level and upward. Only few objects could escape my eyes and my camera. I walked through the Dam Square, the Rokin, and entered the narrow streets behind the Damrak: the Red Light District. From there, I continued to Nieuwmarkt and Waterlooplein, and walked back through the Bloemenmarkt (flower market) and Rokin to the Dam Square. That day, my eyes caught many interesting objects and people in the streets. Objects that I’ve never observed before during my numerous previous walks in the city when I was a student there. And many people that drew my attention, like artists, musicians and ordinary people with peculiar means of transportation. Talking about musicians: this woman sat against a wall, not far from the Central Station, and tried to gain some money by playing the accordion.
© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2010, 2017
A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
248: Folk singer
The city of Olinda, and particularly the colorful historic center, attracts many tourists. This center is well preserved, and is therefore included on the prestigious UNESCO World Heritage List. The city was founded in 1535, and barely a century later it was looted and burned by the Dutch invaders. The rebuilt city was capital of Pernambuco for a long time. The tourists draw many craftsmen and artists to the center: you will see dozens of stalls with a broad range of manually crafted merchandise, and several musicians wandering around. This musician played and sang locally known songs, thereby attracting several dozen interested listeners.
© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2009, 2017
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