Silke Gondolf // Photography
2023 Wanderausstellung Instax Mecklenburg Lake District
2021 Swedish Lapland
Swedens far north is bearing the brunt of global warming, and, as much of Lapland’s population relies on its polar climate for their livelihoods, the effects are starting to be felt.
2020 Grounded by Corona
Mid of March 2020 the lock down came full force. European borders were closed. People in Berlin were allowed to do walks and go to the supermarket. Usedom, at the Baltic sea, was a ghost island during Eastern 2020.
2019 Kargil
Kargil town is a frontier district, during my visit, Kashmir was under security lockdown.
2017 Shopaholic
Japanese Year End Shopping in Fukuoka and Kyoto
2017 Trump Country
Ohio, Arizona, Nogales, Tucson, Warren, Arivaca
Traveling in the United States of America 2017: one year with Trump
2017 Phnom Penh: The White Building
The White Building is one of Phnom Penh’s most notorious apartment buildings, one that many locals consider a slum.
Ethnic Majority – The Highlanders of Ratanakiri
The highlander tribes in the northeast of Cambodia have lost their battle – even though there are Highlander Associations and diverse NGOs trying to do their best to protect them from land-grabbing.
Gem Stone Miners in Cambodia
Once the forest is chopped off and sold, the land is used for heavy mono-culture farming by foreign and local investors. Ratanakiri translates into “the Gem Mountain” – mining for semi-precious stones has been done here for more than 40 years.
Gold Forest – Cambodia
The Gold Forest is an area off limits to everyone not into the gold business. It is a very remote stretch of land with its own rules of law. Read the story here.
Tsukiji Fish Market
The long-anticipated move to the new Tokyo fish market will take place in November 2016, in preparation for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics.
Pol Pots Cook
In 2014 I was doing research for a documentary about dictators’ cooks. I visited the cook of the former Khmer Rouge leader, Pol Pot, in the north of Cambodia.
2006 Bhutan
18 days on the road in 2006 – the last year Bhutan was under the rule of the Emperor, the Dragon King of Bhutan. Bhutan, a country with less than a million people, has a dress code, so called Ghos and Kiras – and lots of red rubber boots. Bhutan, worshipping the phallus an esoteric symbol for the Bhutanese. Ornate, wooden penises decorate doorways, hang off from rooftops and are painted on the sides of homes. They fend off evil spirits. Fresh weed is fed to Bhutan’s farm animals; it makes them slow and relaxed and they put on weight easily. Thimpu, Bhutan’s capital has human traffic lights, police officers dancing like ballerinas, regulating traffic. Bhutan also does not sell Coca Cola or similar sweet sins. The King fights Caries and Adipositas. Smoking is not allowed in all of Bhutan. Everything is under control and people willingly follow the rules. To call Bhutan paradise is to call an authoritarian regime Shangri-La.