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![Ulitza – War in Chechnya – photos by Leo Erken](https://i0.wp.com/www.nl12.nl/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/UlitzaZW20130119_214.png?resize=351%2C185&ssl=1)
Leo Erken: in November 2019 it was 25 years ago that the Chechen war started. I was a 30 year…
![Saving Photography](https://i0.wp.com/www.nl12.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/SavingPhotography309.jpg?resize=351%2C185&ssl=1)
The title of this project surprised some people who have heard me using a similar phrase in a different context…
![Hendricus W. J. Bickhoff – The Amsterdam Citizen’s Orphanage (Burgerweeshuis), 1904.](https://i0.wp.com/www.nl12.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Bickhoff024.jpg?resize=351%2C185&ssl=1)
In May 2017 Leo received his most spectacular purchase on the internet ever. Thinking he bought an old photo book,…
![Leigh Bowery with Nicola Bateman and Richard Torry in Fort Asperen, The Netherlands, 1994.](https://i0.wp.com/www.nl12.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Leo_LeighBowery10-.jpg?resize=351%2C185&ssl=1)
In summer 1994 Leo was sent by The Independent Magazine to the Fort Asperen art show to make a report on…
![YADI – a film documentary in progress](https://i0.wp.com/www.nl12.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/yadi-a-film-documentary-in-progr.jpg?resize=351%2C185&ssl=1)
By Leo Erken, April 2016 My friend Yadivindra Singh Saroya passed away on October 6, 2015, at the age of 49.…
![Images taken with my phone. A visual dairy.](https://i0.wp.com/www.nl12.nl/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Leo2016-17135.jpg?resize=351%2C185&ssl=1)
Pictures made by Leo Erken with his mobile phone between February 2014 and March 12, 2017. In reversed chronological order.
![Ulitza – Photos by Leo Erken from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union 1987-2003](https://i0.wp.com/www.nl12.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/LeoErkenSiteUlitza027.jpg?resize=351%2C185&ssl=1)
You can find the website Ulitza here. Feel free to use the ‘for free’ option and travel trough time. Text…
Лео Эркен – Улица – Восточнaя Европa и бывший Советский Союз 1987-2003
Часть 1: Восточная Европа
![Улица – Часть 2](https://i0.wp.com/www.nl12.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/LeoErkenSiteExpectations14.jpg?resize=351%2C185&ssl=1)
Лео Эркен – Улица – Восточнaя Европa и бывший Советский Союз 1987-2003
Часть 2: Россия и ее соседи.
![Улица – Часть 3](https://i0.wp.com/www.nl12.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/LeoErkenSiteExpectations11.jpg?resize=351%2C185&ssl=1)
Лео Эркен – Улица – Восточнaя Европa и бывший Советский Союз 1987-2003
Часть 3: Центральная Азия, Сибирь и Кавказ.
Leo Erken – Street – Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union 1987-2003
Chapter 1: Eastern Europe.
Leo Erken – Street – Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union 1987-2003
Chapter 2: Russia & neighbors.
Leo Erken – Street – Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union 1987-2003
Chapter 3: Central Asia, Siberia and the Caucasus.
Leo Erken – Straße – Osteuropa und die ehemalige Sowjetunion 1987-2003
Teil 1: Osteuropa.
![Straße – Teil 2](https://i0.wp.com/www.nl12.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/LeoErkenSiteExpectations10.jpg?resize=351%2C185&ssl=1)
Leo Erken – Straße – Osteuropa und die ehemalige Sowjetunion 1987-2003
Teil 2: Rußland & Nachbarn.
Leo Erken – Straße – Osteuropa und die ehemalige Sowjetunion 1987-2003
Teil 3: Zentralasien, Sibirien und dem Kaukasus.
![Улица-Street-Straße](https://i0.wp.com/www.nl12.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/UlitzaCover01.jpg?resize=351%2C185&ssl=1)
The book Street – Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union 1987-2003, published in 2013, recounts the turbulent period in…
![Expectations](https://i0.wp.com/www.nl12.nl/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/55ata_551013.jpg?resize=351%2C185&ssl=1)
Expectations is a never finishing story. (But the camera fell down and did not recover.) Between 2006 and 2015…
![On the Road](https://i0.wp.com/www.nl12.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/LeoErkenSitePortfolio009_009.jpg?resize=351%2C185&ssl=1)
A small selection of photo’s made by Leo Erken during various trips around the globe.
![Looking around in Japan](https://i0.wp.com/www.nl12.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Tokyo05-1.png?resize=351%2C185&ssl=1)
In 2009 Leo was traveling to Japan with film maker Aliona van der Horst working on her film ‘Water…
![digging in the archive: Leonard Bernstein 1989](https://i0.wp.com/www.nl12.nl/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Bernstein02.jpg?resize=351%2C185&ssl=1)
In 1989 Leo was in Warsaw Poland to report on the Political events taking place. Tadeusz Mazowiecki was chosen…
![Let’s share the Alzheimer experiences…](https://i0.wp.com/www.nl12.nl/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Greethandentrui-.jpg?resize=351%2C185&ssl=1)
I found out late, very late – my sister had to tell me – that a huge part of my…