Adriaan Devill� is a photographer based in Belgium with a passion for urban and travel photography. He began his interest in photography in 2009 when he shot his first picture with a borrowed digital reflex camera and his interest developed further through his extensive travels in remote parts of the world. While he is on the road, he captures with his camera the unbelievable beauty and the great cultural diversity of the global community. Photography has changed his view of the world and has taught him to really see in a different way. October 2015 Spotlight
Featured exhibits submitted to SDN in September 2015
by Yusuke Suzuki/Greece
Refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. These people escaped war in their own country and are dreaming a new life in Europe. They pay $1,200-$2,000 to smugglers to risk their life to cross the ocean between Turkey and Greece. When they arrive at a shore of Lesbos in Greece...
by Carole Alfarah/Spain
Catalonia is one of Spain's richest and most highly industrialised regions, where people are proud of their own identity and language. With a distinct history stretching back to the early middle ages, many Catalans think of themselves as a separate nation from the rest of Spain...
by Albertina d'Urso/Brazil
The favelas of Rio de Janeiro are mostly known for violence and drug trafficking. But, also if those problems still exist, life for most of the inhabitants has nothing to do with that. Favelas are becoming safer and better organized. The majority of them have running water and electricity and offer ...
by Enrico Doria/South Africa
This photographic work tells about a not well-known aspect of the current period (and in the post-apartheid) in South Africa, where even the white people are victims of several incidents of discrimination, in particular following the government program "Black Economic Empowerment" (BEE), ...
by Emmanuel Serna/Hong Kong
The plight of the refugees in Hong Kong, is the consequence of a system that isolates and leaves them in endless waiting, out of sight of the rest of the population in unsanitary slums. About 10,000 refugees live in of Hong Kong, mostly coming from Indian subcontinent, but also from Vietnam, Indonesia...
by Paul McGuirk/United States
Cape Cod is like any place else in New England, except it isn't. This little piece of land extending out into the Atlantic Ocean means something in and of itself, but doesn't necessarily offer an explanation. It's a place to be alone with others. A place to follow the light. A place...
by Davide Palmisano/Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of
The BTR-Sat TV station broadcasts all over Europe satellite television programs from its seat in Shukta, Macedonia, the tenth municipality of the city of Skopje, and the first and only city hall in the world, recognized institutionally by nationals of Roma origin. The BTR broadcasts programs of entertainment...
by Abdullah Hasan/Bangladesh
Poverty causes an estimated 6 to 7 million children to work in Bangladesh, comprising one-fifth of the country's labor force.There are many industries in Bangladesh using child labor, often under hazardous conditions and with little regard for health and safety. Most perform their duties for ...
by Austin M Price/Burundi
Much of Burundi's recent history has been plagued with ethnic conflict and marginalization. Namely, the Hutus and Tutsis have dominated public discourse while a third indigenous community, the Batwa, have been shoved aside. Representing 1% of the population of Burundi, this pygmy people has...
