Suriname has almost become a book of me. I have gone there many times. One of the first times I went to Suriname to take pictures, I was also busy taking pictures of Rotterdam groups at the same time. I wondered where the roots of one of those guys lay, and one of those roots was in Suriname. Here I had access to an extension of the work I made in Rotterdam; the group identities there gave me a whole other picture of the world people also knew in Suriname. I saw a lot of things I recognized. Suriname has taught me that a human is a human, regardless of where you’re from – we all have the same patterns.
