Dutch photographer for 8 years of global street scenes, criticizing "making money unreasonable".
How many times have we always been jealous that others can travel the world, and always feel that we are always on the road, watching the wind and rain, and watching everything in the world. What they have endured is beyond the imagination of ordinary people. For example, Dutch photographer Gillen Svolvis had a whim to travel around the world and capture all these unknown events after a drunken experience in 2009.
In Kabul, Afghanistan, Guillen met a woman who was tightly wrapped up and down, although he couldn't see her true face, but Guillen still said that he was "fascinated" by her, because she was too feminine, Guillen and the Afghan woman got too close, was chased by him for a day, and was later extorted for $200 before he was able to escape.
Kabul has been through five years of war, war after war, making its streets wider and dirtier, and "sandstorms" can be set off whenever the wind blows.
Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, has a women's market where women can have a good time and hang out to their heart's content. Jamaica is a Caribbean island that gained independence in 1962 after more than 400 years of colonization by Spain and the United Kingdom.
Guillen was impressed by the enthusiasm and unrestrained spirit of the Jamaican women, one of whom used the bazaar as a venue for a fashion show, and was unpretentious in front of Guillen. Because of his experience in Afghanistan, Guillen had to hire a Jamaican security guard and communicate with people through him.
Since 2007, a large number of writers, poets and artists have gathered in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, a street destroyed by the war, to fund the city's revival in the name of charity. Touched by a father of four children who died in the war, Guillen volunteered to help him ** his own work, and many authors kept putting their own work up for auction.
After his departure, Guillen wrote in her new book: "This kind of bombing and attack happens every day, but in the end, life still has to move forward, and they still hold on.
Most Westerners' impression of Moscow, Russia, is that it is dark, gloomy, full of bandits. However, Guillen was surprised by Moscow, because he could not imagine that this was actually a scene on the streets of Russia.
Guillen later said: "In that painting, you can see tourists, girls dancing on swings, and families playing with children. "To them, it's a different level, a completely alien level.
Guillen was fascinated by the streets of Havana, Cuba, in all kinds of colors, until he became a journalist, and the city was filled with negative press. But when he saw a three-wheeled motorcycle and a limousine driving side by side, the stark contrast between the old and the new, Guillen felt that the Cuban people were full of confidence in themselves, and that it was a natural pride.
That's why Guillen is fiercely opposed to these reporters, after all, the facts are completely different from what they describe, so they are accused of "taking other people's things and being unreasonable".
Barbados is a Caribbean island with only 280,000 people, but its GDP per capita is only $16,000, a figure that relies heavily on tourism. Guillen has been here for more than 20 days, and for him, these 20 days or so are completely vacations, and he has been to every attraction in the country, including the diving platform.
Watching tourists pull ropes and jump into the crystal clear sea, Gillen couldn't help but sigh that as a country that makes a living from tourism, it is really breathtaking to come up with such a boring and desirable game.
In Negambi, Sri Lanka, even sharks and dolphins, which are listed as endangered species, are regarded by local residents as thorns in the flesh. As a result, the fisherman hooked the fish in the eye with a harpoon and pulled it to the shore, and Guillen was angry and tried to stop it, but was beaten up.
Of course, he couldn't stop this kind of thing, and he couldn't stop it, so he could only make this scene public.
In June 2016, he went to Hanoi, Vietnam, to see the power of the "motorcycle empire", and within three days, the two motorcycles did not even look back. Guillen believes that because of the low price, because of the low cost of housing, there are not many people who travel in developing countries. However, Gillen also felt that this place was not a good place for tourism, because the traffic was chaotic, the merchants were dishonest, and the environment was polluted.
Different people look at things from different angles, maybe in his eyes, some people will think it is beautiful, but Guillen spent eight years, traveled to more than 90 countries, and everything he experienced was so real, so natural, so natural.