First drafts of our new magazine 41-43 #3 from the #IndieCon summer school workshop 2017 in #Hamburg, Germany.

#indiemags #froh #frohmagazin #publishyourself #workshop

Dr. Renate Röntgen helps women with the condition of obstetric fistula get back to a normal life in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. Andrea Jeska is telling her story with my images in the recent BRIGITTE magazine!

#lifeinshame #fistula #ejc #europeanjournalismcentre

On Saturday, the Seto tribe held the annual Kingdom Day in southern Estonia and selected their new regent of the King: Piret Torm-Kriis. (Her last name translates to Storm-Crisis...)
She will represent the Finno-Ugric tribe for one year. The first Seto Kingdom was announced in 1994. Ever since the Setos have been holding a kingdom day on the first Saturday in August in a different municipality of the Seto region each year. The king is named after Peko, the Seto folk hero. According to legend, Peko is sleeping eternally in a sandstone cave and cannot rule the kingdom alone and thus the Setos are governed by his representative, chosen by the people on his behalf, called the Regent of Peko, the King of Setos. The candidates literally “stomp” for support, standing on an upright log, and people line up in front of the candidates they want. The candidate with the most people is the new ruler.

#seto #setomaa #kingdomday #estonia #visitestonia #peko #finnougric #tribe

I recently have been interviewed about digital advancements of Estonia. You can hear the full interview in German here: https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/fotograf-fabian-weiss-leben-im-silicon-valley-europas

Recently in the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung: Another important story from our research on fistula has been published about a college for midwives near Addis Ababa.

#lifeinshame #fistula #ethiopia #destamender #ejc #europeanjournalismcentre

I'm proud to see my story on Sireta and Kiiking in Estonia in the wonderful GEOlino this month! Thank you @geolino_magazin and Moritz for your support and trust!

#estonia #kiiking #pärnu #schaukeln #geolino #fabianweiss #kiikingswing

Wow! First place of the Reportagen.fm recommendations this week: Andrea Jeska's story with my images on fistula conditions of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo: http://www.fluter.de/fisteln-durch-vergewaltigungen-im-kongo

#ejc #europeanjournalismcentre #lifeinshame #andreajeska #fabianweiss #kongo #congo #drc #fistula

Recently I visited the Estonian island Kihnu, where the women are keeping the ancient traditions alive recognized by UNESCO as world cultural heritage. German magazine BRIGITTE WOMAN published the images with a lovely text from Andrea Jeska!
Thanks so much Bettina and all the women for the support and hospitality!

Yay! Andrea and my story about Dr. Mukwege, the fistula surgeon and undaunted critic of the Congolese government, has been published in the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung! This research about fistula in Congo and Ethiopia was made possible with the financial aid of the European Journalism Centre and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. More stories to come soon...

You can read the story here: https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik/kongo--der-gynaekologe--der-brutal-vergewaltigten-frauen-ein-leben-zurueckgibt-27782762

Liisi and the palm tree.

Pictures from my recent assignment for the Dutch daily VOLKSKRANT about the Estonian self-defense group Kaitseliit are in today's newspaper!

There's also a video published here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km2tqNUC1dY

If you're flying Lufthansa in the next couple of weeks check out Jenni and my story on the amazing hiking trails around Hong Kong! (or read the article here in GERMAN http://magazin.lufthansa.com/de/de/travel/hongkong-wandern-ueber-dem-grau-das-gruen/and ENGLISH http://magazin.lufthansa.com/de/en/travel-en/hong-kong-hiking-the-air-out-there/

Thanks to everybody who helped us on the way and made the hikes and the trip unforgettable!

Today in the Sunday edition Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung of the German newspaper FAZ: Sebastian Pranz's and my story about bacteriophage therapy in Georgia as an alternative to Western society's antibiotics in times of international surge of 'Superbugs' resistant to all known antibiotics. Thank you, Claudius and Andreas, for your support!

Great news - I have been nominated among eight other former DMJX students for the Joop Swart Masterclass. Good luck to Roger Anis, Dario Bosio, Matthew Busch, Sagar Chhetri, Marie Hald, Heba Khamis, Berta Tilmantaitė and Rebecka Uhlin.

Amazing: This month in GEOlino my photos of Estonian young freeski high-flyer Kelly Sildaru are the cover story! Thank you, Moritz, for all your support and trust!

We did it again: together with the journalistic NGO FROH! e.V. I am hosting a one-week workshop making a magazine for the Lutheran church in Düsseldorf, Germany.

http://www.ekir.de/www/service/magazinprojekt27970.php

#luther #reformation #ekir #frohmagazin #publishyourself

Andrea Jeska and I started working today at the Heal Africa clinic in Goma, Eastern Congo, where women with fistula are being treated with operations and helped to get back to a normal life.

You can follow our research made possible with the EJC grant here: www.lifeinshame.org

#lifeinshame #goma #congo #drc

To the future!

Pia's story with my images on Georgia and the country's feeling of togetherness and future in the January issue of the LUFTHANSA magazine. Thanks, Adrian, Zita, Sara, Tiko, Irakli and all the other amazing people that we met on the trip!

You can see the article online here http://magazin.lufthansa.com/xx/en/rubric/a-journey-through-georgia-to-the-future/

Congratulations Kelly on the Gold medal for the Women's Ski Slopestyle!

Photo: Training in Meribel, France, in 2016
Full story in GEOlino coming soon!

Today in the Dutch daily VOLKSKRANT: Jenne Jan Holtland 's story on the relatively new Polish child support program 500Plus with my pictures! Thanks for the great support Gerrit-Jan!