Photo gallery of Jacob Holdt

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American Pictures:

So far I have 3.400 of my American pictures up on this site. You can see an index of them here - including the bad from my very first slideshow and various friends. I am looking for funding to help make all 10.000 of them available
in a searchable database on the internet and on an educational interactive DVD about racism. There will also be photographic life stories on most of the people and families whom I have followed photographically for almost 30 years - all too often from cradle to grave - as well as interviews and videos.

       
Girl in screen door Helen and her children in Mississippi Prison love in Georgia Cross burning in Alabama

 USA page 1
Rural black 
underclass

 USA page 2
The despair, hunger and apathy resulting from oppression

USA page 3
Crime and subcultures of the underclass

USA page 4
White racism, poverty - and the filthy rich

       
Welfare mother in New Jersey The whore and white sexism Young love in Philadelphia Beggar in Baltimore

USA page 5
Urban black underclass

USA page 6
Symbols of white oppression

USA page 7
Sex, religion and schools

USA page 8
Homeless people

       

Latest - one week in Ku Klux Klan's headquarters !!!

Klanlederens barnebarn tegner Pamela skriver til Jeffery Jefferys gruppe til korsafbrænding

50 pictures from "the stronghold of hate"
But read here about how I found more love than hate in
"Romeo and Juliet in Klan hoods"

       

Other countries:

I rarely get time to photograph, but once every two years I usually take off from my lectures in America for a week or two to a new country to free myself of my creeping Americanized thinking - often to do volunteer work for CARE. The longest stays have been in Bolivia and Nepal, but the most personal relationships I had with the people I lived with in the slums of Haiti and especially Namibia. If you like my American Pictures you should take a look at my African pictures for comparison.

       

Bolivia
From 3 field trips for CARE 

Nepal
From 2 field trips for CARE 

Haiti
One week during American invasion

Namibia
From three weeks for IBIS

       

Nicaragua
I was there only one day!

 

Cambodia
From a 3 day trip while in Thailand

Thailand
From one week in the north for CARE

Guatemala
One week to help during hurricane 

       

Kosovo
Working 2 weeks for CARE

Jamaica
From a one week vacation

Zimbabwe
Hitchhiking 6000 miles through Africa

Denmark
Mostly political pictures

       

Other issues:

I love to photograph my friends - and to tease them a bit on the Internet. Also I have increasingly started photographing the minorities I work with in Europe where racism is directed more against Muslim immigrants than blacks.

       
       

Jacob Holdt with show equipment

Friends
My friends and acquaintances 

Personal
Publicity photos 
of Jacob Holdt
 

Famous people
whom I ran into
in my work

  Minorities
Danish speakers and spokesmen

       

Pictures for My Genealogy Pages
from m
y family's photo archives :

For good reasons I did not take all these family photos myself. I have only included a few pictures from the 1st and 2nd generation since mainly the older generations have significance for related genealogists around the world.
The pedigrees are shown under each picture. For my children and myself I have mainly included pictures relating to the other issues on this site - such as racism, hitchhiking, USA, Africa etc. My wife's side is not finished yet - just as my own will probably never be. The text to the first 10 generations is so far only in Danish!!!

 

1. generation 
Our children

1-2. generation
Our children and us

2. generation 
Jacob

2. generation
Vibeke

 

3rd generation:
Jacob's father

3rd generation: Jacob's mother

3rd generation:
Vibeke's father

3rd generation:
Vibeke's mother

 

4th generation:
Jacob's dad's side

4th generation:
Jacob's mom's side

4th generation: Vibeke's dad's side

4th generation:
Vibekes moms side

 

5th generation:
on Jacob's side

5th generation:
on Vibeke's side

6-10th generation:
on Jacob's side

6-10th generation:
on Vibeke's side

       

And of special interest to our millions of distant cousins around
the world with whom we share the same historical ancestors:


11-150th generation

 

Jesus
of Nazareth

 

Julius Caesar
of Rome

 

Cyrus II the Great
King of Persia

 

Shakespeare's
Macbeth

 

       

Even though you may descend mostly from peasants and thus can only trace your ancestors 300 years back in parish registers, the nobles and earlier rulers (with credible genealogical tables) had sufficient affairs on the side to make the above and most other historical celebrities your likely ancestors or distant cousins - unless you are of Eskimo, Polynesian, American Indian or Australian Aborigine descent. See the reason here.

       

 

American Pictures:

So far I have 3.400 of my American pictures up on this site. You can see an index of them here - including the bad from my very first slideshow and various friends. I am looking for funding to help make all 10.000 of them available
in a searchable database on the internet and on an educational interactive DVD about racism. There will also be photographic life stories on most of the people and families whom I have followed photographically for almost 30 years - all too often from cradle to grave - as well as interviews and videos.
 Girl in screen door Fading dream Boy in shack Old woman
   
40 acres and a mule Old woman in shack Black and white woman Love at oil lamp
 
Wilma Mother and children Linda and mother Reading at oil lamp
98-year old murderer Linda's first light Children with oil lamp Homework in shack
Grandmother Old woman sweeping Old woman in NC Cotton picker in shack
Straightening the hair Girl with oil lamp Sugar cane worker Grandmother in bed
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Shotgun shacks in rain Stove fires Sugar cane workers Linda's father

 

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