Ben Wilhelmi

South Sudan, random pictures

Reading the news, It seems not much has changed. Peace treaties that are not respected, ghosts raping women (yes ghosts, "Horny evil spirit rapes 6 women in Juba" says the paper), million people still displaced, child soldiers, torture, rape and murder...

Here are some pictures from 4 years ago. 4 years already...

 

My old plane back then. Here the Indian peace keepers in Pibor.

Some areas look so peaceful...one would never guess there is a civil war and atrocities raging on. Somewhere along the White Nile.

Eastern European pilots at work, maybe the Russian usual suspects, landing in the middle of the parking lot instead of on the runway. Ah well they make life interesting. I wish I had been closer to avoid the heat distortion. Over 40C...

 

 

Coming home after a shopping spree in Juba.

 

Mi 8 helicopter. Ukrainian registered I think. It was fun to "intercept" it and snap a coupla pictures. 

 

 

 

 

Street photography, Belgium

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Portraits in B/W, Tanzanian bush

 

Northern Tanzania, Loliondo greater region.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pictures from South Sudan

 

 

Floods in the far bush.

Who designed the ugly contraption...

Common scenery. View from the aircraft.

 

 

 

 

Refugee camp, one of many...

Portraits in the bush, Tanzania

Another selection of portraits in the remote Tanzanian bush. No direct money was ever involved but a print to each model. In fact it would have been cheaper to pay each model and leave it at that but I didn't want to start a filthy game.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aerial photography, Indian ocean, Tanzania

Some random pictures of the stunning Tanzanian coast.

 

Chumbe island, off Zanzibar

A lone fisherman on Pemba island reef, my favorite spot in this part of the ocean.

Bwejuu island, off Mafia island. the mud from the Rufiji river mixes with various plankton over changing water depth to explain these colours and texture changes I was told.

Mafia island mangrove.

Mud flow at the Rufiji delta. This river is the biggest river in the country.

 

Mfia mangrove again.

Pemba island reef.