Source: ET
Sometimes accidents give us more perspective than reading or travelling. That is exactly what happened with Jeroen Swolfs, a Dutch photographer who got drunk and fell on a pavement in Amsterdam almost a decade ago. As he stared at the pavement and streets around him, he felt a deep desire to see what street life is like in different cities around the world. That night Swolfs came home with a crazy idea to photograph street life in different capitals of the world; little did he know he would end up travelling to 195 countries in his pursuit.
Seven years ago, Swolfs embarked on his journey across the globe to show the positive side and developed a project titled “Streets of the World”. His idea was simple; he wanted to show the world as one; he wished to use his lens to show a brighter side focusing on the commonalities of the people instead of their differences.
Hailing from Amsterdam, Swolfs graduated from Utrecht University and the Amsterdam Photo Academy years ago. He worked as a photojournalist for Volkskrant newspaper and national museum Rijksmuseum, yet felt that his creative soul was unsatisfied and that is when “Streets of the World” began.