The Birth of Sweet Life Ed van der Elsken 1959 travelling from IJmuiden to Dakar Photography

Ed van der Elsken travelled extensively, to Bagara 1957 (now in Democratic Republic of Congo), and to Tokyo and Hong Kong in 1959 to 1960, with Gerda van der Veen (1935-2006), his second wife (also a photographer). The photographs by Ed van der Elsken : on the Guineekust, travelling from IJmuiden (Netherlands) to Dakar (Senegal) 1959. See for the epic photojourney Sweet Life ... & see also Ed van der Elsken Voluminous and Billowing ...