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Czechostalgia: A photographic ramble through 1990s Bohemia

August 28, 2021August 28, 2021 pdg 0 Comments České Budějovice, Český Krumlov, Charles Bridge, Czech Republic, Czechia, Czechoslovakia, Novohradské hory, Prague, South Bohemia, Šumava, Temelín, Vltava

Snow-covered landscapes, peeling plasterwork and views from my window: A sentimental selection of photos from Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in the early 1990s.

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Far from home: The Czechs of Romania’s Banat Mountains

April 14, 2021April 26, 2021 pdg 0 Comments Balkans, Banat, Czech Republic, Romania, Rovensko

How a familiar tune in a remote corner of the Balkans led a hiker to rediscover a long-lost ethnic minority.

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Bagpipes in Bohemia: A festival full of surpises

September 7, 2019September 10, 2021 pdg 0 Comments Czech Republic, Czechia, International Bagpipe Festival, Mezinárodní dudácký festival, Strakonice

The world’s biggest bagpipe festival is not in Scotland but in an obscure, post-industrial town in the Czech Republic.

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Bohemia’s bagpipe festival in pictures

April 21, 2019September 20, 2020 pdg 0 Comments bagpipes, Czech Republic, International Bagpipe Festival, Strakonice

Every two years the International Bagpipe Festival draws pipers from all over Europe — and occasionally from as far away as New Zealand — to a small town in the Czech Republic.

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Phone booths of the world

June 25, 2018August 31, 2021 pdg 12 Comments Armenia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Ethiopia, Hungary, Iran, Laos, Macedonia, New Zealand, phone booth, Portugal, Romania, Spain, telephone, Ukraine, USA, Vanuatu

The phone booth has, tragically, become an endangered species — hence my mission to preserve these once ubiquitous features of our urban landscape through photography.