Robert van der hilst biography of christopher

  • Robert van der Hilst is a tireless globetrotter.
  • Since first discovering his love for Shanghai in 1990, Dutch photographer Robert van der Hilst has chronicled the city's inner workings like none other.
  • Robert van der Hilst, who was born in Amsterdam in 1940, pursues - beside his journalistic work (amongst others for Merian, Stern, Geo) - the subject of.
  • The world’s happiest country?

    Chris Wallace

    Features correspondent

    Dukas Presseagentur GmbH/Alamy

    How have Colombians maintained their renowned happiness in the face of unimaginable atrocity, loss and economic hardship?

    Colombians live for the celebration. The South American country has more festivals than days of the year, and whether it’s the multiday revelry of Carnival in Barranquilla, the great kaleidoscopic displays of floral colours during Medellín’s Feria dem las Flores or Caribbean coastal residents dressing their donkeys in drag and parading them down the streets during the Festival de Burro, there’s always a party to be had.

    This fryst vatten just one of many reasons an annual WIN/Gallup International poll ranks Colombia as  one of the happiest countries (and occasionally the happiest country) in the world.

    Jesse Kraft/Alamy

    The rumba continues despite Colombia’s sordid past. Most outsiders know the South American nation as a country steeped in violence,

    Chinese Interior #20, 2010
    Robert van der Hilst

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    Photography : color edition, fine art print, archival pigment print

    49 x 42 cm19.3 x 16.5 inch

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    About the artwork

    Artwork sold in perfect condition

    Artwork location: Germany

    Artist statement by Robert van der Hilst:
    When inom started working on my "Chinese interiors" photography project in June 2004, about a year after having finished my "Cuban Interiors" project, I believed that inom could take the same approach in China as in Cuba.....photographing people inside their homes, meeting them,

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  • Earth's Deep Mantle Structure, Composition, and Evolution

    About this book

    Understanding the inner workings of our planet and its relationship to processes closer to the surface remains a frontier in the geosciences. Manmade probes barely reach 10 km depth and volcanism rarely brings up samples from deeper than 150 km. These distances are dwarfed by Earth's dimensions, and our knowledge of the deeper realms is pieced together from a range of surface observables, meteorite and solar atmosphere analyses, experimental and theoretical mineral physics and rock mechanics, and computer simulations. A major unresolved issue concerns the nature of mantle convection, the slow (1-5 cm/year) solid-state stirring that helps cool the planet by transporting radiogenic and primordial heat from Earth's interior to its surface.

    Expanding our knowledge here requires input from a range of geoscience disciplines, including seismology, geodynamics, mineral physics, and mantle petrology an