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Robinson Creek, Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/2283515c-913e-4224-b470-edf636ea45b1/MDblackLung-04.jpg Work - Black Lung At the X-ray machine of Dr. James Brandon Crum of the United Medical Group, Pikeville, Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/b36788e1-e95f-45b5-bc05-a66e2694f89e/MDblackLung-05.jpg Work - Black Lung Glenn enters his truck after Bible class and a meeting at the Faith Baptist Church in Dorton, Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/adccacee-5174-4300-b884-89bfe4f6175a/MDblackLung-06.jpg Work - Black Lung Glenn had the best sense of humour, telling jokes in his truck if his breath would allow him. On the way to Pikeville, Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/4f92799e-a7e0-493b-849e-c7d660e75727/MDblackLung-07.jpg Work - Black Lung Glenn and his mother watching TV together. Robinson Creek, Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/649727b6-ce54-45fd-9708-fe9a60a47081/MDblackLung-08.jpg Work - Black Lung Glenn receives a little comfort from his wife while trying to BBQ scallops. Sookeys Creek, Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/0969801e-c3bc-4063-a0a4-d86b77335970/MDblackLung-09.jpg Work - Black Lung Glenn and his family at the Faith Baptist Church in Dorton, Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/f9eeba60-fa49-41c3-8b28-0092e409f88b/MDblackLung-10.jpg Work - Black Lung Glenn in his truck driving toward Virgie, Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/7794c629-91b1-46ad-9a03-0fe13334b605/MDblackLung-11.jpg Work - Black Lung Glenn showing his last mine that he worked at in Virgie, Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/8b357234-c689-43d8-8b83-f32725909218/MDblackLung-12.jpg Work - Black Lung Looking out at a strip-mine in Wise County, Virginia from Lynch, Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/05dc856a-afc5-4c7c-abac-76124e070c26/MDblackLung-13.jpg Work - Black Lung Coal transport belts near Jenkins, Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/efb4f3a4-cbc6-4ea1-9fad-78e0c58d5be6/MDblackLung-14.jpg Work - Black Lung Arriving at the Pikeville Medical Center in Pikeville, Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/37f562f1-bc81-409a-81dd-e26d4c161b39/MDblackLung-15.jpg Work - Black Lung Glenn drops off his mother at her home in Sookeys Creek, Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/96186036-43d8-4156-946d-90329255ee68/MDblackLung-16.jpg Work - Black Lung Glenn has to stop every few meters to catch his breath, Pikeville Medical Center, Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/7e8e94d0-16eb-4200-aad9-4448b6a6a031/MDblackLung-17.jpg Work - Black Lung Glenn says a final goodbye to the staff of the Black Lung Clinic in Pikeville, Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/5bbb43cd-6c49-4190-bfbc-6eda2022c023/MDblackLung-18.jpg Work - Black Lung On the way to a Food Court in Glenn truck. Robinson Creek, Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/53f6f173-2e07-4aa9-be2b-942f614c8066/MDblackLung-19.jpg Work - Black Lung Glenn in his kitchen beginning to struggle breathing without oxygen. Sookeys Creek, KY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/117b9f49-96a3-43ec-aab0-f4291872dda4/MDblackLung-20.jpg Work - Black Lung Glenn together with his wife, two daughters, son-in-law and visitor in their living room in Sookeys Creek, Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/282ea41c-d123-4223-b4f0-dc672a9c8384/MDblackLung-21.jpg Work - Black Lung Out on the patio in Sookeys Creek, Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/ae3bf610-9859-4466-84cd-001815e4e5ba/MDblackLung-22.jpg Work - Black Lung Glenn is really starting to suffer the effects of not being able to breathe and has to stop driving until the pain eases a bit. Virgie, Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/77ccb893-74bc-4065-9946-42c2561c4398/MDblackLung-23.jpg Work - Black Lung Glenn and his wife buying charcoal for the BBQ at a Food City in Pikeville, Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/8ef95c30-e4f5-4331-9158-3b0b21594203/MDblackLung-24.jpg Work - Black Lung Glenn slow BBQing chicken for 3 hours in his back yard, Robinson Creek, Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/e54c8eae-fffb-44a5-8473-0b101a7f51e5/MDblackLung-25.jpg Work - Black Lung An old coal hopper near Harlan, Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/1410f046-ac07-4d92-9496-dd957f52a5d0/MDblackLung-26.jpg Work - Black Lung Glenn and his wife wait for bible class to start at the Faith Baptist Church, Dorton, Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/b5c8a9e6-a075-414b-9600-6c6ee9246071/MDblackLung-27.jpg Work - Black Lung Glenn on his way to prepare for the night. He doesn’t dare to sleep in bed anymore fearing that he might suffocate if he rolls onto his back so he sleeps on the sofa. Robinson Creek, KY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/8bbfd20e-260f-49fa-aa4f-c5d2d983935a/MDblackLung-28.jpg Work - Black Lung Glenn has lost a lot of weight in the last two years, putting on a clean shirt. Robinson Creek, Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/d2d36bc6-c04b-4842-a6ca-2474a446d6af/MDblackLung-29.jpg Work - Black Lung Glenn sleeps on the sofa now because he doesn’t dare to sleep in bed anymore fearing that he might suffocate if he rolls onto his back. Robinson Creek, Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/6a356611-0d61-4ac6-8d39-f7e4f33a8507/MDblackLung-30.jpg Work - Black Lung Glenn shows his wedding photograph. Robinson Creek, Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/73803dbf-b4f4-44f8-8328-d75755635e34/MDblackLung-31.jpg Work - Black Lung The Salyer’s family house in Robinson Creek late at night. https://merlindaleman.com/work/daily-life monthly 0.5 2025-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/d094e304-3cf2-45e2-b281-11452e3716ae/MDdailyLife-01.jpg Work - Daily Life Kevin walks into the arena of his Circus Harlekino, as Emi Velkova and Maria Kellner hold open the curtain in Bladel, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/90ef53d9-2e18-445e-8e96-2ade2370b4c3/MDdailyLife-02.jpg Work - Daily Life A couple in a caf in Weighton, East Riding which voted 60.4% Leave in the Brexit referendum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/ede4a780-a489-4625-8132-5251fd361553/MDdailyLife-03.jpg Work - Daily Life A security guard at a basketball game in ’s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/19885c72-e2fa-44aa-9bcc-2a48e0b276c4/MDdailyLife-04.jpg Work - Daily Life Two Dutch airforce pilots return to the Netherlands after being captured in Libya. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/8e801dfc-4699-4543-b236-7b034bf078c4/MDdailyLife-05.jpg Work - Daily Life A coffee bar on Corso del Popolo in Treviso, Italy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/2a36646f-87f5-408c-9670-276df48299e3/MDdailyLife-06.jpg Work - Daily Life Students who just got out of bed at midday in Maastricht, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/a73daa87-a681-4629-8bfc-ab4c5ce7dcfd/MDdailyLife-07.jpg Work - Daily Life Behind the scenes during a blues concert in a retirement village in Birmingham, UK. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/b481778a-7467-4564-828a-680292e84fb7/MDdailyLife-08.jpg Work - Daily Life Photographers at a goat farm where the goats receive the first vaccination against Q fever, Vinkel, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/2476c4a2-6ce4-4d91-8281-13f3aed5a3b9/MDdailyLife-09.jpg Work - Daily Life Collecting bull sperm at KI Samen in Grashoek, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/9ee7371a-8046-4767-a171-3321dd4c3069/MDdailyLife-10.jpg Work - Daily Life Riot police search for a contact lens at the RKC-FC Dordrecht game in Waalwijk, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/b3764d3d-d5c0-4555-bb08-0e9768419a2d/MDdailyLife-11.jpg Work - Daily Life Guys celebrating Carnaval in Tilburg, 4 days of nonstop partying, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/eab72d7a-bbbf-4310-b47c-d09a1bd6752b/MDdailyLife-12.jpg Work - Daily Life Feyenoord loses 3-0 against Excelsior leading to confrontations with the riot police. Rotterdam, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/bed98470-2cb9-4ae7-8a44-0d9a50e41c3c/MDdailyLife-13.jpg Work - Daily Life Police, army and airforce raid a gypsy camp looking to weapons, drugs and money, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/18beec57-93f1-4ccb-a535-0206d4792958/MDdailyLife-14.jpg Work - Daily Life A volunteer at the citizens’ assembly of the G1000 in Helvoirt, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/69c30028-1559-4620-8d2d-3665527c756e/MDdailyLife-15.jpg Work - Daily Life A dog owner takes a rest with his dog at the Winner Dog Show in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/78d75fbb-31d4-46eb-8442-38496e8c3054/MDdailyLife-16.jpg Work - Daily Life A picture series about the area of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen where people are moving away and therefore shops close and the community slowly disappears. Sas van Gent, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/aed0dc43-7c47-44ec-a484-dfde4332e9d9/MDdailyLife-17.jpg Work - Daily Life Open heart surgery at the Catharina hospital in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/d352deab-b6bb-432e-8038-b53bdad2d6e9/MDdailyLife-18.jpg Work - Daily Life Bruce Adams cools down at the Marbella Jazz Festival, Spain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/99ed5d5d-3da9-43be-8776-d5db3a76dcf1/MDdailyLife-19.jpg Work - Daily Life A jazz band in the centre of Birmingham, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/3473928e-1418-4651-9dc4-db212dbd617c/MDdailyLife-20.jpg Work - Daily Life All entry points to the estate Graafsewijk are closed by the riot police, no-one is allowed in or out, ’s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/d9214c3c-3a58-4072-b9f4-06b40978b14c/MDdailyLife-21.jpg Work - Daily Life A man takes a rest on a public bench, Bergen op Zoom, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/99124509-63e3-440c-8d56-b647decc5958/MDdailyLife-22.jpg Work - Daily Life Anti-terrorist drill in Vlaardingen, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/fdbe1cd2-91ac-436c-a545-6b13a90c6e48/MDdailyLife-23.jpg Work - Daily Life Bus and car manufacturers of VDL protest against nature-preserve demonstrators, Born, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/5c12eb7f-2b09-4dea-94b1-9b1b51110193/MDdailyLife-24.jpg Work - Daily Life Heavy rain makes the carnaval celebrations take a break in Tilburg, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/1833fe48-28ed-4777-92c1-dde2a9a60868/MDdailyLife-25.jpg Work - Daily Life Tourists shelter under umbrellas near the Bobby Sands mural, who was an IRA member that died on hunger strike while in prison. Belfast, Northern Ireland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/4ed02f8f-67a4-4363-a41b-af32189bd39d/MDdailyLife-26.jpg Work - Daily Life Two woman take a smoke break outside the hairdresser’s, Liverpool, UK. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/da360726-7937-4a31-b005-cf3031b2a223/MDdailyLife-27.jpg Work - Daily Life A boy waits to cross the road, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/345e31e2-2d19-4570-b703-93fdea32a25c/MDdailyLife-28.jpg Work - Daily Life Winners Andy Schleck, Koos Moerenhout and Steven de Jongh at the Criterium van Boxmeer, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/d30c7f6a-cfca-456a-bcd0-604c20acb370/MDdailyLife-29.jpg Work - Daily Life “Who’s the Presidents” breakfast in the Kurhaus in Scheveningen the day after the US elections. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/a91c12d8-e183-4281-9411-507ac3fe3bf1/MDdailyLife-30.jpg Work - Daily Life Roy Forbes introduces his bass player, Birmingham, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/89595a8b-59cc-43ea-b2db-afc411f79f30/MDdailyLife-31.jpg Work - Daily Life Side entrance to the main stage at Pinkpop, Landgraaf, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/7471c988-414c-431f-8f7d-c68fa63dbdaa/MDdailyLife-32.jpg Work - Daily Life Dogs and their owners get together near the seafront in Great Yarmouth, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/6286dd96-5601-40e2-925d-e419951befc7/MDdailyLife-33.jpg Work - Daily Life Monmouth is reportedly one of the top three happiest places to live in the UK. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/8c4b7fa2-12b5-4b53-ac7d-12457f0a69a9/MDdailyLife-34.jpg Work - Daily Life This is Hellendoorn, officially the happiest village in the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/eaa05d3b-8575-43b3-a665-dc94d52fd7c7/MDdailyLife-35.jpg Work - Daily Life Jeffrey Herlings soars through the air on his way to winning the MXGP in Valkenswaard, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/6209a019-e828-4008-8b8d-0fc683d68a84/MDdailyLife-36.jpg Work - Daily Life Eikenberg hill climb during the cycle race Omloop van het Volk in Maarke-Kerkem, Belgium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/3f47542a-06b8-4b32-9ea5-4f1eefd9b5f1/MDdailyLife-37.jpg Work - Daily Life World and Olympic champion Anky van Grunsven waiting to do her lap of honour at the Dutch National Dressage Championships in Eindhoven. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/6d4177ff-fd4e-498f-a97b-a09db5101f3b/MDdailyLife-38.jpg Work - Daily Life Freedom Parade participants rehearse in a bike shed on the Dutch liberation day in Wageningen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/ae2531fa-df7e-4c9d-aa61-6adf640a83d6/MDdailyLife-39.jpg Work - Daily Life Dog owners let their dogs relieve themselves at Winner dog show, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/13f54094-13e3-42cf-9399-a2bc8e91b170/MDdailyLife-40.jpg Work - Daily Life A father walking his two sons in the happiest village in the Netherlands, Hellendoorn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/a3f060fb-2c2d-4007-8185-abbdd4e673d6/MDdailyLife-41.jpg Work - Daily Life A dog and its owner sit on benches in Drunen, the Netherlands. https://merlindaleman.com/work/mutiny monthly 0.5 2025-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/1e3911d5-b478-4319-8a24-f7f9724a2584/MDmutiny-01.jpg Work - Mutiny In the run up to the elections of 2019 I visited Lancaster, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/9fd32bb1-a355-4051-a467-03aec50865ed/MDmutiny-02.jpg Work - Mutiny A young girl eats an ice-cream outside an eatery in Bridlington, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/93d368db-9a4d-4ccb-8cca-dfe143e226a2/MDmutiny-03.jpg Work - Mutiny A lady sitting in a caf in a shopping center in Hull, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/f2ca62a0-533d-44ff-93af-3b2234e69a82/MDmutiny-04.jpg Work - Mutiny Youth dressed in black which is sad to say but it could be likely also the colour of their future, Bridlington, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/185d730a-1397-4bbf-9b89-29fadbde596e/MDmutiny-05.jpg Work - Mutiny The Chinese take-away on Broadway in Jaywick, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/7e242e6f-dee4-4f8d-9aeb-d9197241a910/MDmutiny-06.jpg Work - Mutiny Nathan Milne lighting a cigarette by his back door. Nathan has a bairn on the way and is so scared for their future that he always tries to have enough food in his house to last him for at least a week, just incase chaos breaks out and the shops will be empty, Boddam, Scotland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/2d95db41-f2e3-46cd-842b-a253954fbd6b/MDmutiny-07.jpg Work - Mutiny The silhouette of a beggar under a bridge of the Suffolk Street Queensway. Birmingham, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/14cb5099-7b58-46fe-b2c8-bc382c26b26c/MDmutiny-08.jpg Work - Mutiny An elderly gentleman takes a rest in the Buchanhaven area, part of Peterhead, Scotland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/7fa19944-3f1d-4d29-93b4-b2d0710ff8cb/MDmutiny-09.jpg Work - Mutiny The golfers cross the road to reach the other half of the golf-course. Havering had a 70% Leave vote during the 2016 Brexit referendum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/fe176f6c-31c8-41b5-af7a-932ef006cd3d/MDmutiny-10.jpg Work - Mutiny A couple in a pleasure boat ride along the exterior of Pleasure Beach. Skegness, England. I found it remarkable that someone would pay money to sit in a boat that goes along a ride with no view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/5246d771-d916-4cd2-b215-bb4c97093f37/MDmutiny-11.jpg Work - Mutiny View through a tunnel on the outskirts of Ballymena, Northern Ireland. Ian Paisley’s heartland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/baa9edcf-537a-4bbb-9a65-e510acd1cd3f/MDmutiny-12.jpg Work - Mutiny People on a boulevard near a fun fair. Ingoldmells, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/05bec636-f5c3-4ae5-a193-0eb981146c10/MDmutiny-13.jpg Work - Mutiny A driver just finished pointing at something whilst he tells me about the neighbourhood round Saracen Street, Glasgow, Scotland. I found the Glasgow effect a sad but interesting concept so I went to Possilpark in Glasgow and talked to people in the healthcare and community social workers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/ce016051-58e2-42d5-bf42-e62cdc3699df/MDmutiny-14.jpg Work - Mutiny I found the Glasgow effect a sad but interesting concept so I went to Possilpark in Glasgow and talked to people in the healthcare and community social workers. This is outside a community church in Saracen Street, Glasgow, Scotland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/044c4c05-25e4-49d1-aa3b-ea8046c0aca9/MDmutiny-15.jpg Work - Mutiny I spotted the young ladies walking into a coffee shop near the Mailbox. Birmingham, hoping to catch them on their way out, when the girl on the left looked over in my direction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/a8cf183e-8c03-4c80-a258-1961b244c12a/MDmutiny-16.jpg Work - Mutiny A reflection of in the window of Archie’s Burgers in Birmingham, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/daa58ea3-3c76-40d4-acd9-0453549111b6/MDmutiny-17.jpg Work - Mutiny Barbers waiting for customers, one fell asleep, up towards Old Town in Swindon, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/6b20a220-1be5-430f-be50-f3b5bc86c25e/MDmutiny-18.jpg Work - Mutiny On the seafront at Skegness I came across the rear entrance to the Pleasure Beach. The drainpipe cut through the word Pleasure, almost as if striking it out, a detail that felt symbolic and ironic. Coastal towns have seen a decline in tourism since the late eighties partly due to cheap holiday flights abroad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/9643a46c-9561-4d65-9ec8-d57f30283c17/MDmutiny-19.jpg Work - Mutiny A day at the beach with the donkey ride in the background. Skegness, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/9448d2f4-e198-4bd2-9383-f4c97f718aad/MDmutiny-20.jpg Work - Mutiny A lady eats her fish ’n’ chips at a seaside chippy. Skegness, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/24160fc7-325f-4f45-9d8e-c3f8cbd80840/MDmutiny-21.jpg Work - Mutiny Noem Lorraine Wildes (59, left), founder of Rainy Bakes, prefers to be known not as a baker but as a “cake artist.” Clients bring her photographs, which she reimagines in sugar and icing. The business is based in Jaywick, often described as the most disadvantaged place in the UK. A modest but much praised enterprise hub here now offers a small step toward a more hopeful future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/98d76f39-1370-4408-92ee-bdc241015ca5/MDmutiny-22.jpg Work - Mutiny Men pass each other near the Bull Ring. Birmingham, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/94047982-b2ed-4c53-a619-de93f5015afe/MDmutiny-23.jpg Work - Mutiny Shopping trolleys dumped in a river just outside the shopping centre in Chelmsley Wood near a sociale supermarkt called Around Again Charity, Birmingham, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/1d7e3496-5506-4269-bd49-507a0618d5c1/MDmutiny-24.jpg Work - Mutiny A boarded up house and a church behind a McDonalds sign in Dudley, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/d67035ad-3560-441c-9009-7f91d7c409c9/MDmutiny-25.jpg Work - Mutiny Waiting for classic fish ’n’ chips at the Black Country Living museum in Dudley, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/3eec2279-ecde-4017-817d-09b6fe14cab0/MDmutiny-26.jpg Work - Mutiny Girls on their night out at Brindley Place in Birmingham, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/6937721e-8233-4b93-b380-d025d8e3cfad/MDmutiny-27.jpg Work - Mutiny Passengers on a bus in Aberdeen, Scotland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/bef2d2d5-99e9-4687-81db-9cab7798d874/MDmutiny-28.jpg Work - Mutiny This is the window of a supermarket with on it advertising British produce in Morecambe, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/27865eab-2733-45a6-aeb6-dcb9f14693cc/MDmutiny-29.jpg Work - Mutiny Gift on his way out after dropping off his bag of food from the food-bank of the Elim Community Church in West Bromwich, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/24a354c8-4969-4176-b5d0-cf7f831f4d34/MDmutiny-30.jpg Work - Mutiny Paul Sommerville campaigning for a People’s Vote in an attempt to reverse the Brexit. Going from door to door in Durham and campaigning at gatherings in Sunderland, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/dff50287-e56d-41d5-a825-8403c3dc30d1/MDmutiny-31.jpg Work - Mutiny People near the seaside of Bridlington, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/1e838e14-b5a1-46e5-9c9b-cb58e6477732/MDmutiny-32.jpg Work - Mutiny A group of ladies playing a board game in a shelter on the boulevard of Skegness, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/5ec27d1f-28bd-4926-87c3-a9295ca4e484/MDmutiny-33.jpg Work - Mutiny A man eats an ice-cream at his work-station in Dudley, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/e4c2448c-1bb8-4270-a7ec-51d671292f72/MDmutiny-34.jpg Work - Mutiny In Stratford-upon-Avon the referendum vote matched the national average, which drew me there. While sheltering from the rain I saw a group of schoolboys in uniform approaching, and tried to frame the moment as a quiet reflection on the idea of three classes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/fc92a4e4-fe84-4079-9179-5486a13fdd8c/MDmutiny-35.jpg Work - Mutiny A group of day-drinkers sitting on a wall overlooking a park. Dover was badly effected by the Brexit and the port still struggles to manage the effect of not being part of the EU. Dover, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/a143e9aa-9bc9-489b-af5e-a75743642dc8/MDmutiny-36.jpg Work - Mutiny Market in Beverley, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/496e2171-5ead-4fd0-b5e7-208435840225/MDmutiny-37.jpg Work - Mutiny A lady waits for the bus at a bus shelter with a caravan park in the background. Skegness, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/864f75c8-5284-46dc-b1a8-894608ea04b3/MDmutiny-38.jpg Work - Mutiny Kids play war on the catholic side of the Ardoyne estate. Belfast, Northern Ireland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/265c3210-0c69-400d-838f-db8de574d37c/MDmutiny-39.jpg Work - Mutiny A street scene near the place where a young man got stabbed to death in Hamiltonhill. Glasgow, Scotland. https://merlindaleman.com/work/reportage monthly 0.5 2025-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/8b34f2ea-1382-4f75-853c-a298bcae1f87/MDreportage-01.jpg Work - Reportage Firefighters rest after battling a massive dune fire for hours in Loon op Zand, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/1213506b-2542-46f3-9ccb-1628000664ba/MDreportage-02.jpg Work - Reportage Drift fishermen have not caught anchovies in the Oosterschelde for a long time, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/f4d62d68-1625-460e-9fed-6cb6e7eb7fb2/MDreportage-03.jpg Work - Reportage Many Eastern Europeans workers at the slaughterhouse VION in Tilburg, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/7cce1c06-341f-479f-b16c-a8f8c1e9cd11/MDreportage-04.jpg Work - Reportage Angry farmers block a major motorway near the Dutch border. Mol, Belgium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/dcb5b7b3-6642-4c76-9cc1-cffa5002b456/MDreportage-05.jpg Work - Reportage An undocumented immigrant just had his hair cut in the second Jungle in Dunkirk, France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/23d4affe-7c38-44b6-882f-482fdc1cfabb/MDreportage-06.jpg Work - Reportage Illegal Chinese workers wait for jobs in the textile hub Prato, Italy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/67709317-6f06-459c-950b-0280c6c94591/MDreportage-07.jpg Work - Reportage The community party during the Hellendoornse feestdagen, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/c58bf4bb-bc19-4b09-899e-0f1c20306a4b/MDreportage-08.jpg Work - Reportage Amateur football club VV De Zwerver in Kinderdijk, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/e56cd821-5bea-4579-a787-2cdd58316ee0/MDreportage-09.jpg Work - Reportage Cyclist Wout van Aert fans gather meet in a pub in Herentals, Belgium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/3d850149-41cd-4488-ae08-2b41434aea50/MDreportage-10.jpg Work - Reportage A sandwich shop in the Chinese quarter of Paramaribo, Suriname. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/229ee454-aa3e-48d3-9537-6317fd139507/MDreportage-11.jpg Work - Reportage nside a kebab shop in Roosendaal, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/624c2aa0-ecec-4bc6-8c1e-37405299632c/MDreportage-12.jpg Work - Reportage This village in northern Italy struggles to retain its young people. As it slowly empties out, the council helps farmers transition to greener, more independent practices. Varese Ligure, Italy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/8f1c47a7-9379-4c91-ba13-db97d550df20/MDreportage-13.jpg Work - Reportage Faith is a refugee from Sierra Leone, and she lives with her 3 children in one small room. Rotterdam, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/57ef4eec-29ad-4a28-9a67-66a5a94b0976/MDreportage-14.jpg Work - Reportage A Middle Eastern family looks on at Tegel Airport, Berlin, Germany. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/77b6d82d-85e2-4ede-965c-e99ea4ec12b0/MDreportage-15.jpg Work - Reportage South eastern Rome, Italy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/3c146d9d-e3f6-4e0d-ba45-5628aa668773/MDreportage-16.jpg Work - Reportage A typical Dutch Frietkar (chippy) in Maarheeze a town struggling with issues around an overcrowded asylum seekers’ centre, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/60391e59-d089-43d3-a870-3059ee8e6e0d/MDreportage-17.jpg Work - Reportage Grandfather, Nicolich, awaits eviction from his home. His wife and children left that morning. Zeist, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/843623de-3d60-4bd1-9d47-ea16c82fc5c2/MDreportage-18.jpg Work - Reportage The village of Lynch is the only black coal mining village in the otherwise mainly white coal mining region of Appalachia. Catholic Church in Lynch, Kentucky, USA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/e4e90b03-3e53-47b7-a6dc-c2f636d12235/MDreportage-19.jpg Work - Reportage Floris Alkemade former Chief Government Architect, Sint-Oedenrode, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/3f48603f-8aa8-427a-8df6-f747ab1d0687/MDreportage-20.jpg Work - Reportage Lunch time at the Abbey of Our Lady of Koningshoeven, where Trappist monks live, work and brew the famous Trappisten beer. Tilburg, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/17f19300-a4af-4515-9faa-0fd2e1cb76f6/MDreportage-21.jpg Work - Reportage The workout area in the attic of the Abbey of Our Lady of Koningshoeven, where Trappist monks live, work and produce the famous Trappisten beer. Tilburg, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/88a46f69-dd8d-4141-a722-e7744b38bf0c/MDreportage-22.jpg Work - Reportage Dutch volunteers distribute food to illegal immigrants in the second Jungle in Dunkirk, France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/3cdf8aeb-dd28-4405-8a4e-c92f8a2cb02f/MDreportage-23.jpg Work - Reportage A girl watches the men during morning prayer in the Nour al Houda Mosque. Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr. Arnhem, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/ecebe427-6d26-4f27-a087-ace89a0869b9/MDreportage-24.jpg Work - Reportage A Chinese man emerges from the subway in the central of Rome, Italy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/615b1b80-ad06-4faf-a360-e5665f3dfff1/MDreportage-25.jpg Work - Reportage A shop that sells food in the Chinese quarter of Prato, where many undocumented Chinese textile workers live and work. Italy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/124e7797-45a9-4a41-90a8-40194bd7ae2d/MDreportage-26.jpg Work - Reportage Conservatory of music and ballet. Children rehearse a modern dance routine. Ljubljana, Slovenia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/44bb4263-cc8a-4782-adb3-eb3b641806b3/MDreportage-27.jpg Work - Reportage Emi Velkova behind the scenes at Circus Harlekino, Bladel, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/81d59a01-e05c-4263-8565-8549fba6a0d9/MDreportage-28.jpg Work - Reportage People waiting for the exit polls during the election results night of the 2025 national elections. Rotterdam, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/616956dd-5a0f-4d62-9994-0094bfb0f200/MDreportage-29.jpg Work - Reportage A tram conductor rides with two passengers late at night in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/fa128e42-f8e2-48f9-994b-d5968d453894/MDreportage-30.jpg Work - Reportage Nepalese Rajendra Prassad Devkota has just come out of a hunger strike, Brussels, Belgium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/6d01f9de-5de6-4448-92f8-74244d9a0d11/MDreportage-31.jpg Work - Reportage Ballet lesson at the community centre in Schijndel, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/4f1b4159-10d0-4583-89d4-08d8fd9b6969/MDreportage-32.jpg Work - Reportage Brooks Williams performing at the Prince of Wales, Birmingham, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/b910d584-ca99-421f-af02-383f2fff111b/MDreportage-33.jpg Work - Reportage Tourists on a boat in Venice, Italy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/cbdad3a1-0950-4be8-9452-1e812ad2c158/MDreportage-34.jpg Work - Reportage A truck driver takes a nap on the ferry from Rotterdam to Hull. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/8fa316b2-66f0-4a6f-96ff-9295aedeaec8/MDreportage-35.jpg Work - Reportage Clown Salvini preparing for his performance at Circus Harlekino, Bladel, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/7f14baac-b5aa-49d2-bf76-4ec2a1239794/MDreportage-36.jpg Work - Reportage After work, a suited man stumbles around drunk in the City in London, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/e7f5d475-d58b-4d57-9e61-f76bf845b951/MDreportage-37.jpg Work - Reportage Onlookers during the visit of right-wing politician Geert Wilders to Spijkenisse, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/3bd4fd83-70b0-4f8a-b5f8-4659b6e7903a/MDreportage-38.jpg Work - Reportage A man rests by the entrance of one of the many pound shops in Dudley, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/1cb03e8a-3306-4295-9bad-31dd7d8e74da/MDreportage-39.jpg Work - Reportage Farmers protest in the Hague. They drove hundreds of tractors from across the country, causing mayhem and chaos on the roads, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/30cb11ce-f3e1-40b1-963b-5687e7a67e6d/MDreportage-40.jpg Work - Reportage Desi Bouterse a former military dictator who led coups, ruled through terror including the 1982 "December Murders" of 15 critics, Paramaribo, Suriname. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/8e48dd67-d290-4a78-819b-6f461faa96b6/MDreportage-41.jpg Work - Reportage The Nour al Houda Mosque. Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr. Arnhem, the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/ca5328db-c9fb-4a9b-8187-a09c465e31bc/MDreportage-42.jpg Work - Reportage London Stock Exchange, England. https://merlindaleman.com/work/sicily monthly 0.5 2025-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/ad4b0682-8066-4314-85f2-07ff8eaf53d8/MDsicily-01.jpg Work - Sicily At the start of the Good Friday procession in the San Pietro Church in Randazzo, Sicily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/dca103f6-75ae-462b-9f34-c9ef8415017c/MDsicily-02.jpg Work - Sicily The day after the Good Friday procession a man prepares himself for the next procession in a back room at the San Nicolò Church in Randazzo, Sicily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/110ed16d-3e58-4b3d-89cd-a8eda221986b/MDsicily-03.jpg Work - Sicily The American Sonya Quarterman talks about her plans for building work in one of her three 1 euro houses in Mussomeli, Sicily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/dc621499-8535-4b99-9a27-4d45f96ea735/MDsicily-04.jpg Work - Sicily Friends wishing the groom and groom a happy marriage. Chiaramonte, Sicily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/893c385d-1396-43ee-b6cd-78df95cfd2ee/MDsicily-05.jpg Work - Sicily A rare occasion that outsiders were welcome at the Convent delle Nacelle di Maria Addolorata. Randazzo, Sicily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/651489ba-b848-4448-8bb4-1d2c71ace115/MDsicily-06.jpg Work - Sicily A mothers in high heels hands out water to her daughter during a break of one of the many processions during Easter. Randazzo, Sicily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/9d604ce4-19e1-48b5-a973-7b740fd494f5/MDsicily-07.jpg Work - Sicily A mother breastfeeds her baby surrounded by friends during a gay wedding in Chiaramonte, Sicily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/7ef3af8b-5af3-4a1d-a9da-f41c72220f24/MDsicily-08.jpg Work - Sicily A man looks through a window into a shop in Marina di Modica, Sicily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/55b6627e-2d85-4d97-9d00-0efeba92ff3f/MDsicily-09.jpg Work - Sicily A man stands in the sea whilst its raining. Isola Bella, Sicily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/fa5a682d-c230-4e60-a4b6-5ca57beac449/MDsicily-10.jpg Work - Sicily A man looks out of a barbershop window in Randazzo, Sicily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/27b774eb-d53a-44b0-869b-81e46d9df5df/MDsicily-11.jpg Work - Sicily A girl dancing on the streets of Randazzo, Sicily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/02697e6e-0a90-4a90-967e-5df2dcdae194/MDsicily-12.jpg Work - Sicily A horse between the olive trees in Montalaguardia, Sicily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/4a137c06-dd7d-4a97-9387-077b0f0e99d2/MDsicily-13.jpg Work - Sicily A chair on a balcony in a apartment, Gioiosa Marea, Sicily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/1a3cbcfe-ff02-4c74-bdd6-a5f66245cf53/MDsicily-14.jpg Work - Sicily A mother with her children fold a blanket on the beach near Gioiosa Marea, Sicily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/1b722b77-c7eb-46d5-bc55-21ba619a0912/MDsicily-15.jpg Work - Sicily Cows drink the little water available in the never completed dam of Blufi. In the heart lands of Sicily there is a constant water shortage due to bad maintenance and mismanagement, money somehow always seems to leak away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/39f2c16b-6018-4684-a28b-38cad0b8da9e/MDsicily-16.jpg Work - Sicily Participants of the Good Friday procession in Randazzo, Sicily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/1324c04a-fe29-4c1c-8767-6fad5148b1e2/MDsicily-17.jpg Work - Sicily A priest busy organising the processions in Randazzo, Sicily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/4dbe4d65-2e32-47b3-a629-4f4655b63eb7/MDsicily-18.jpg Work - Sicily Guests at a gay wedding in Chiaramonte, Sicily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/f3ab06b0-75ed-476a-b81e-336036297b0d/MDsicily-19.jpg Work - Sicily Parents of one of the two grooms take a little rest before the ceremony, Chiaramonte, Sicily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/378e7630-a7b4-4c90-b169-e371584f1c50/MDsicily-20.jpg Work - Sicily Parents of Sabina Molinari in their kitchen on their farm. Life is not easy on the small farm of thirteen cows, one calf and a donkey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/4e39d86a-2e22-4afc-b8e9-604e9c847314/MDsicily-21.jpg Work - Sicily A man looks at the statue of Jesus carried on the shoulders of the men of the church. Randazzo, Sicily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/589349a2-7417-4622-9c90-ccb121e7c8c2/MDsicily-22.jpg Work - Sicily Family BBQ at the country house in Savina, Montelaguardia, Sicily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/d9676bbe-bada-48f9-889a-887c188d6cdc/MDsicily-23.jpg Work - Sicily Virgin Maria procession in Randazzo, Sicily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/f3386048-90ac-4b25-b123-edba46c5117d/MDsicily-24.jpg Work - Sicily Participants of the Good Friday procession in Randazzo, Sicily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/4c41b518-4a9b-483f-89fe-8a6757fc8d63/MDsicily-25.jpg Work - Sicily Mussumeli has sold many houses for one euro and is attracting a lot of foreigners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/6313340e-844d-4da8-96f7-c46ee589557b/MDsicily-26.jpg Work - Sicily A man resting at a crossing in Randazzo, Sicily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/0abc75da-e0d1-4646-b053-109841acfae5/MDsicily-27.jpg Work - Sicily Public look at the Vara during the celebration of the assumption of Maria. The Vara is a towering, multi-layered triumphal chariot, staffed by children portraying angels, saints and the Virgin Mary. Randazzo, Sicily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/5dd402b9-a660-40e8-b494-52911b67cb77/MDsicily-28.jpg Work - Sicily Parents wait for the return of their children from the Vara. The Vara is a towering, multi-layered triumphal chariot, staffed by children portraying angels, saints and the Virgin Mary. Randazzo, Sicily. https://merlindaleman.com/work/skype-village monthly 0.5 2026-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/21f58873-3925-4356-83ea-fc07c9b8bec1/MDskypeVillage-01.jpg Work - Skype Village A girl waits for her mother, who has been working in Southern Italy for years, in the house they building but still haven’t completed due to a lack of money. Bobivtsi, Ukraine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/9ad02270-d0f7-44e6-94d4-342a9c6d02a9/MDskypeVillage-02.jpg Work - Skype Village The mayor of Bobovtsi talks to his predecessor about ways to solve the problems surrounding the youth, who they believe are running amok. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/719db577-4800-4507-920f-698331a7e313/MDskypeVillage-03.jpg Work - Skype Village Stasic is bored and plays around the house before getting ready to go to church for a christening with his grandparents. He hasn’t seen his parents in real life for more than a year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/0a624c3b-7008-47c5-95ed-5201b6d9a70d/MDskypeVillage-04.jpg Work - Skype Village The Children of Vania,, who works in the Netherlands, are on Skype in their home in Bobivtsi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/ba3abb22-4fa3-4b3b-8689-d9b8e136fab1/MDskypeVillage-05.jpg Work - Skype Village The car of one of the grandfathers hasn’t been driven in a while because his wife keeps him from using it because he tends to drink to escape his problems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/bf24522d-8b14-4027-b283-ed2a393d571b/MDskypeVillage-06.jpg Work - Skype Village Vania’s son with his grandmother watch a wedding procession passing through the main street of Bobivtsi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/48a21f6c-e9b8-4574-8222-c9562e4f4de6/MDskypeVillage-07.jpg Work - Skype Village One of the many big new houses build by the money made in Western Europe, sthough most of them remain empty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/d5b5cfe5-a3af-43aa-ac88-bca8b643095c/MDskypeVillage-08.jpg Work - Skype Village Stasic plays with his best friend at his grandfathers house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/c88b0615-c4a3-426b-a90a-e251f4fcaefb/MDskypeVillage-09.jpg Work - Skype Village A child runs after his mother in the village of Bobivtsi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/5d022aac-5dd4-43dc-bc6d-882021b19c9b/MDskypeVillage-10.jpg Work - Skype Village Stasic plays around with his grandfather and hits him on the head. They spend a lot of time together and he helps his grandfather on the land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/bd3da015-3674-4b60-974f-36ac28b7ab4f/MDskypeVillage-11.jpg Work - Skype Village A grandmother and great grandmother cook for the whole family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/340496c9-1a28-40e9-b816-d312287cbcf5/MDskypeVillage-12.jpg Work - Skype Village Chernivtsi, Ukraine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/0afd2fd2-e104-480a-a183-6302c2c83374/MDskypeVillage-13.jpg Work - Skype Village Stasic’s grandfather with a neighbour talking about their children working in Western Europe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/a7d8b5c5-c134-45a3-8670-6926f19d7620/MDskypeVillage-14.jpg Work - Skype Village Stasic Skypes almost every day with his parents that work and live in Spain. It’s the only form of contact they have. The father of Stasic has been away for several years now and was recently joined by Stasic’s mother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/00131875-b5ec-45c0-8c29-2be80c66df0f/MDskypeVillage-15.jpg Work - Skype Village Stasic plays in a barn with his best friend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/2992be0e-24e5-4ee4-8c7a-21013cb1ddd3/MDskypeVillage-16.jpg Work - Skype Village Grandfather Mykhailo and one of his daughters brings in the hay from the land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/a8da9672-b839-4e07-9a5d-fd8c3fb8b530/MDskypeVillage-17.jpg Work - Skype Village An elderly woman gathers stones alongside the road of the main square of Bobivtsi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/a2964a0c-4bed-4c96-9780-d8afc6890402/MDskypeVillage-18.jpg Work - Skype Village tasic’s grandmother walked their two cows back home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/e1673169-aa7b-4788-8a8d-a3e1fcc4cfea/MDskypeVillage-19.jpg Work - Skype Village Two men walk with ornaments toward their church. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/d4b53655-c61a-48b4-9733-fdb5cf743e7f/MDskypeVillage-20.jpg Work - Skype Village The daughter of Vania, who works now in the Netherlands is talking on Skype. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/39ef8a61-1d87-434b-b9c7-dcbf3b6d4c4e/MDskypeVillage-21.jpg Work - Skype Village A grandmother cooks for her grandchildren. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/c160be4c-e84d-47dc-a898-c354d6011a47/MDskypeVillage-22.jpg Work - Skype Village Vania’s son, wife and mother outside their old house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/6a2bdb13-c9e5-4566-bf24-d644e9496ee9/MDskypeVillage-23.jpg Work - Skype Village Stasic in his grandparents’ bedroom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/6d13c271-2231-4ba4-9e97-6c81a32e5986/MDskypeVillage-24.jpg Work - Skype Village Stasic and his grandparents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/689388405b96f0318e78dce3/03ee5ffa-108c-4de1-8462-c65c8fc72b4b/MDskypeVillage-25.jpg Work - Skype Village Stasic and his grandfather in their traditional clothing ready to go to church for a christening.