Het WK voetbal wordt in de Croystraat in Rotterdam-Beverwaard nauw gevolgd en bewoners kijken geregeld samen naar wedstrijden. In de straat hangen maar liefst zeven verschillende vlaggen. "Iedereen is samen één", vertelt een bewoonster.
Flickr: Can you introduce yourself and share a little bit about your background as a photographer?
Adedoyin: I’m Adedoyin Aderomola MacWatson, a documentary and fine art photographer from Ogun State, Nigeria. My practice is rooted in storytelling—preserving culture, memory, and the quiet complexities of African life. With a background in Dramatic Arts from Obafemi Awolowo University, I approach photography with a strong sense of narrative and composition. Over time, my work has expanded across several African countries, where I document lived experiences, traditions, and spaces that hold historical and emotional weight.
Flickr: How would you describe your style or preferred genre as a photographer?
AAM: My work exists between documentary and fine art. I document what is real, but I am intentional about how it is seen. I’m drawn to themes of identity, ritual, memory, and communal existence often exploring African heritage in ways that feel both intimate and expansive.
Flickr: What inspires you to shoot at a specific location?
AAM: I’m drawn to locations that carry memory, spaces that hold history, presence, and cultural weight. My approach is deeply rooted in Africanism, where space is not just physical, but lived, inhabited, and spiritually resonant.
I’m often inspired by places shaped by communal life, ancestral connections, and indigenous knowledge systems. This includes cultural festivals and traditional practices—moments where heritage is not remembered quietly, but performed, embodied, and passed on. In these spaces, there is movement, symbolism, and a continuity between past and present that I find compelling.
In many African contexts, land is layered with meaning; it holds stories, rituals, and identities. Whether it’s a sacred site or an everyday environment, I’m drawn to places where something has been preserved, visibly or invisibly over time.
My interest is not just in what a place looks like, but in what it represents and how people exist within it. Through my work, I aim to document and preserve these environments, especially as many are evolving or at risk of being overlooked, creating images that function as both visual records and cultural reflections.
Flickr: What gear or tools are essential to your workflow, and do you have a favorite camera setup?
AAM: My workflow is built on simplicity and efficiency. I rely on lightweight, reliable gear that allows me to move freely, especially when working in dynamic environments. As a drone pilot, aerial tools are also essential, they allow me to explore perspective, scale, and spatial relationships in ways that ground level shooting cannot.
Flickr: What message or feeling do you want viewers to take away from your work?
AAM: I want my work to linger, to create reflection, connection, and a sense of presence.
At its core, my practice is about shifting the African narrative, presenting our culture and values with honesty, depth, and intention. I’m interested in showing what is often overlooked, not as spectacle, but as lived experience and identity.
If the work can challenge perception while holding truth, then it has done its job.
Flickr: Is there a body of work, project, or specific photo that feels especially meaningful to you right now? Can you share the story behind this?
AAM: A project that feels especially meaningful to me right now is ILÀ: Don’t Take Away My Identity. It explores tribal marks as powerful symbols of identity, heritage, and belonging in West Africa, particularly in southwestern Nigeria. These marks are more than facial scars—they are living archives of lineage and cultural history, now gradually disappearing due to changing social perceptions.
Through photography, video, and oral histories, I am documenting these markings across Yoruba communities in Nigeria and the Benin Republic, preserving their meaning as expressions of identity. ILÀ is both a form of documentation and a reclamation of narrative.
The project is currently in development, and I am actively seeking funding and support to bring it to life through an exhibition and a photobook.
Flickr: You’re also a member of Black Women Photographers, can you share your experience being part of the community?
AAM: Being part of the Black Women Photographers community has been grounding. It’s a space of visibility, support, and shared experience. It has connected me with other photographers whose perspectives continue to shape and challenge my own.
To contribute to the visual landscape as a Black woman photographer today means to document with intention, to preserve narratives that are often overlooked, and to do so with care and authenticity.
For emerging photographers, I would say: trust your voice early. Your perspective is your strength, don’t dilute it trying to fit into existing spaces.
Flickr: Besides photography, what are some other passions of yours?
AAM: Besides photography, I enjoy collecting perfumes, there’s something about scent that feels deeply tied to memory and identity, much like my work. I also value stillness and intentional “me time,” moments to pause and reset outside of creating. I’m very family-oriented, so when I’m not working, I spend a lot of time with my family and close friends. Those connections keep me grounded and present.
Flickr: What is the best way for people to reach out to you?
AAM: I’m open to collaborations, commissions, and conversations. The best way to reach me is through my social platforms (instagram: @macwatsonphotography) or email (macwatsonphotos@gmail.com), where I share ongoing projects and updates.
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Haas started the season strongly, with Ollie Bearman delivering a big haul of points at the opening two races. As such, the American outfit were in the thick of the midfield fight – but since bolting on their first big upgrade package, their form has faded.
Lewis Hamilton finally stood on the top step of the podium for the first time in Ferrari colours last weekend after taking victory in the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix.
De grootste thuisinstallateur van Nederland komt niet meer naar Amsterdam. Busjes mogen er niet in, parkeerplekken zijn er niet, iedereen krijgt alleen maar boetes en het enige waar die wereldvreemde idioten in de Stopera mee komen is een KLUSHUB. En waarom komt Feenstra dan niet meer? "Een woordvoerder spreekt van 'een stapeling van gemeentelijke belemmeringen'." Zoals ook ondernemers en zzp'ers niet meer in of uit die stad kunnen, omdat ze zijn getreiterd, bedreigd en richting de afgrond gepest. Nou, het is hartstikke MOOI dat Feenstra niet meer komt. Laat die stad maar afbranden door achterstallig onderhoud, het huis van Zita Pels, Moeskops en een paar van die andere curriculum vitae-idealisten eerst. Kunnen zij mooi toekijken hoe de hele stad naar de tering gaat.
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After spending the past three decades of his life being totally unable and unwilling to engage in any meaningful way with the world around him, James Parker, a local guy who sucks at being a person, told reporters Thursday that he saw huge potential in AI. "While it's still in its early phase, artificial intelligence will one day accomplish things that humans could have never even dreamed of doing," said Parker, who, by all accounts, has never stretched himself to do something he found difficult; has never created anything truly original; and, deep down, has absolutely zero understanding of what makes things good, enjoyable, or rewarding. "Just yesterday, I asked an AI program to write an entire sci-fi novel for me, and [as someone who will die an empty shell of a man who wasted his life doing nothing for the world and, perhaps, should never have been born] I was super impressed. Soon, humans won't need to do anything at all! Awesome." At press time, Parker added that as someone whose contributions to society would almost certainly be measured cumulatively as a net loss, he also saw great potential in the future of the metaverse.
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Reuters reports a cyber extortion group has claimed responsibility for breaching Novo Nordisk's network, stealing roughly 1.3 terabytes of data, including source code, drug research, clinical-trial records, employee and physician information, production-system details, and internal AI model data. The group says it's exploring selling parts of the data after unsuccessfully demanding $25 million from the company. From the report: FulcrumSec, a cyber extortion group that emerged in October 2025, said in a long message posted to its website that it spent more than two months in Novo Nordisk's networks stealing data. It said that data included company source code, proprietary information on released and unreleased drugs, trial data, employee, doctor and patient data, information related to company processing facilities and internal AI model information.
[...] FulcrumSec told Reuters in an email that Novo Nordisk representatives contacted the group on June 3, roughly 48 hours after the group's initial contact to unnamed company executives. The company used a random Proton Mail email address sent to email addresses that FulcrumSec used in its initial outreach, and confirmed it was the company by requesting specific files for verification only the company would know about.
The FulcrumSec representative also said that the group would prefer not to sell data, "as open sourcing it is a more effective deterrent for future companies to avoid paying." [...] FulcrumSec said it would not share some of the data it stole, including information on thousands of company employees and physicians, and roughly 11,500 pseudonymized clinical trial patients. The group said it also would withhold data related to operational technology and software used to interact with sensors and machinery at Novo Nordisk production facilities as part of its "harm-reduction strategy." A Novo Nordisk spokesperson said in an email that the company "is aware of claims that data allegedly copied externally without authorization from our systems has been published online. We take this matter seriously and maintain continued operations of our main platforms. We are in contact with the relevant authorities."
[...] FulcrumSec told Reuters in an email that Novo Nordisk representatives contacted the group on June 3, roughly 48 hours after the group's initial contact to unnamed company executives. The company used a random Proton Mail email address sent to email addresses that FulcrumSec used in its initial outreach, and confirmed it was the company by requesting specific files for verification only the company would know about.
The FulcrumSec representative also said that the group would prefer not to sell data, "as open sourcing it is a more effective deterrent for future companies to avoid paying." [...] FulcrumSec said it would not share some of the data it stole, including information on thousands of company employees and physicians, and roughly 11,500 pseudonymized clinical trial patients. The group said it also would withhold data related to operational technology and software used to interact with sensors and machinery at Novo Nordisk production facilities as part of its "harm-reduction strategy." A Novo Nordisk spokesperson said in an email that the company "is aware of claims that data allegedly copied externally without authorization from our systems has been published online. We take this matter seriously and maintain continued operations of our main platforms. We are in contact with the relevant authorities."
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WASHINGTON (ANP/AFP) - De Amerikaanse centrale bank heeft de rente in de Verenigde Staten woensdag onveranderd gelaten, zoals algemeen was verwacht op de financiële markten. Het is het eerste rentebesluit van de nieuwe Fed-voorzitter Kevin Warsh.
Hij is de opvolger van Jerome Powell, die geregeld felle kritiek kreeg van president Donald Trump omdat de Fed de rente niet sneller verlaagde.
Het belangrijkste rentetarief in de VS blijft op een niveau tussen 3,50 en 3,75 procent. Daarmee hield de Fed de vierde opeenvolgende vergadering zonder renteverandering, ondanks de aanhoudend hoge inflatie en een sterke arbeidsmarkt. Mogelijk kan de Fed later dit jaar de rente verhogen om de gestegen inflatie, als gevolg van de oorlog in het Midden-Oosten, aan te pakken.
Renteverlaging
Toch zijn beleidsmakers van de Fed verdeeld over de vraag of er in 2026 nog een renteverhoging nodig is. Negen van hen verwachten dit jaar ten minste één renteverhoging van een kwart procentpunt. Daartegenover staan negen beleidsmakers die uitgaan van een ongewijzigde rente of zelfs een renteverlaging.
De Fed verhoogde woensdag ook de inflatieverwachting voor dit jaar. De prijsstijgingen bevinden zich momenteel op het hoogste niveau in drie jaar en zullen naar verwachting pas in 2028 terugkeren naar de doelstelling van 2 procent van de centrale bank.
Prijsstijgingen
Volgens de nieuwste economische ramingen van de Fed komt de inflatie eind 2026 uit op 3,6 procent. In maart ging de centrale bank nog uit van een inflatie van 2,7 procent tegen die tijd.
Beleidsmakers van de Federal Reserve verklaarden dat de economische activiteit "in een stevig tempo blijft groeien, ondanks de verhoogde onzekerheid die deels voortvloeit uit het conflict in het Midden-Oosten." De inflatie blijft volgens de centrale bank hoog in verhouding tot de doelstelling van 2 procent, mede als gevolg van "aanbodschokken die in bepaalde sectoren, waaronder de energiesector, tot prijsstijgingen hebben geleid."