Eagerly awaiting

The young boy thoughts telling me: Ooh, there they are my playmates, they are laughing and having fun. Mom? I want to go home, please let me play on the swing again and having fun with the boys on the street. I was present by a lecture for Buddhist at the monastery of the yellow- hooded monks in the city of Xiahe. Located somewhere in China, where Tibetans and Chinese are separated lead their own lives.

As a documentary photographer, Janssen capture the moments he recognises in his fellow human beings, especially those elsewhere in the world. In everyday moments, he finds the same needs, insecurities or pleasures that all people enjoy in their lives - albeit to different degrees. In a world of polarisation and contrasts, sometimes even on one continent, Janssen settles geographical and symbolic boundaries by photographing people in a pure essence. He photographs the richness of our most basic human needs, like freedom, family and security - or, conversely, the absence of their obviousness.