“Luke, I’am your father” brilliant ad design by Jeremy Dawkins for ID chewing gum www.dadabrooklyn.com.  

Fantastic design by Jeremy Dawkins photographed at "Wild Earth" summer campsite  Hudson Valley, NY.

What If !? being a foreigner or stranger is mostly a concept ?

My daughter Analena gave me the idea when she was working on an organic farm, together with people with special needs. Also working there, are young Africans who are part of a South /North World exchange program.

Incredible what mutual caring, planning paired with respect, competence and the willingness to integration can create !

The Newbies with their easygoing, professional, warm spirited and get up and go attitudes are remarkably fitting and just wonderful.

Deeply touched by the connection and interaction of the newcomers with their special needs clients and the social workers of the Bruderhaus .

Nothing felt weird, foreign or strange

They were all navigating life, with everyones wonderful and unique specialties. Language and cultural bumps enhanced the experience for everybody.

Witnessing integration in action was quite amazing and a bit different as it is normally presented in media , politics and sometimes real life.

design by Jeremy Dawkins- Dadabrooklyn.com 

sho on location in Detroit ,Dallas and New York City,

 Design by Jeremy Dawkins, dadabrooklyn.com 

TLC - DVF - Luong Ung - Susan Minot - Michael Ballhaus - Rick Moody- Shinnecock Eagle Feather

Architect Takaaki Kawabata photographed at his home Hudson Valley ,NY

Chernobyl cover German Greenpeace magazine  .

In 1996, I was part of the first official Greenpeace Mission going into the 10km Zone in Chernobyl / Pripyat.  An unforgettable and truly scary experience,

Fast Forward 25 years later Chernobyl is a brilliant Amazon/Netflix TV Miniseries .

A little background information

Super Gau / Worst Case Nuclear Accident

In the late 70s -Pro Nuclear Power scientists, companies and government officials claimed that the chance of a Super Gau/ Worst Case Nuclear Accident happening, would be estimated anywhere from 1: 10 Million up to a 1 : 100 Million chance per year and plant to happen.

Beginning of 1980s, six years before the Chernobyl Super Gau estimates had arrived at a possible Super Gau ratio of  1: 10.000, which was a 1000 times more and a tiny little bit more realistic .

And finally, after Chernobyl in 1986 and Fukushima 25 years later in 2011- we arrived in REALITY.

Today serious experts are talking about the possibility of a Super Gau/ Worst Case Nuclear Accident every 10-25 years

There are about 450 Nuclear Power Plants worldwide.

Americans

Whistleblower litigators photographed at 16 Beaver Studio, New York City

Supercreative designer Josh Vogel of Blackcreek Merchandise photographed for Dwell Magazine on location Kingston, NY .

on being an artist :

"It's hard to be an artist.  

It's hard to be anything.

 It's hard to be.”

"Keep it real " photographed on locations in New York City and Miami .