Archive for the ‘Documentary’ Category
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G/B3
” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] Generations / Interiorly CARL UYTTERHAEGEN / ABDUL-VAHIT DUMAN Two Photographers Three Generations Evolution of the Living rooms GENERATIONS / INTERIORLY (G/B3) is a social-documentary essay by photographers Carl Uytterhaegen and Abdul-Vahit Duman. By means of pictures of living rooms (‘indoors’), the two photographers try to create a visual image of what Flemish people and Turkish immigrants in Ghent and Antwerp pass on from one generation to the next. By photographing living rooms of three generations, both in Flemish and Turkish families, Carl Uytterhaegen (°1944) and Abdul-Vahit Duman (°1980) direct their lenses to […]
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The new Mosques in Flanders
” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] New mosques in Flanders – Between nostalgia and reality Mosques today are barely visible in the streets. They are often located in old factories, old townhouses or shops. These mosques often remain hidden from the search of the first generations of Muslims for cheap (temporary) places of worship. In parallel with the continued existence of these hidden mosques are slowly but surely build mosques, as in the Limburg Beringen, Sledderlo, Winterslag … The characteristic of these mosques is that they have the characteristics of its architecture ‘nostalgia mosques. They seem, as it were […]
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The hidden Mosques in Flanders
” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] Muslims can make their five daily prayers anywhere.Yet Ghent Muslims soon after their arrival in the 1960s seeking a joint prayer. In the Diaspora mosques means therefore much more than in the Muslim countries of origin. They evolved from meeting the foreign into multipurpose centers embedded in the urban fabric. Yet this ‘hidden mosques’ for the average Fleming remain invisible in the cityscape. They do not look like typical Indeed mosques with domes and minarets. Rather, they are converted townhouses or buildings that originally had a different destination. That says a lot about the […]
