Yellow Van Stories

Amjad Ramadan was born in Homs, Syria, in 1995. He left Syria due to the civil war and fled to Turkey in 2012 at the age of 17. He lived in Kastamonou for 4 years where he enrolled at the local university to study journalism. Due to Amjad's financial decline, he had to withdraw before any of the courses had even started and without his curiosity having been quenched.  He decided to go to Euro...

Engeli Haupt was born in South Africa and grew up in the capital Pretoria. She studied linguistics at UNISA, the biggest university of the country, that counts amongst its alumni Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu. 16 years ago Engeli moved to Mexico due to her love for the Spanish language and, most of all, due to her adventurous and curious nature. During this time, she has been working in English...

In today’s episode I will be speaking to Danny and Laura Seiler, who got stuck in the Moroccan desert during the first lockdown. For two months, they and their two beautiful daughters, lived in an oasis where they were stalked by a scorpion, painted an entire swimming-pool blue, and built their very own pizza oven. They will tell us why hospitality is at its greatest when somebody puts a spade in...

Olga Stefatou is a visual artist and curatorial consultant. She recently moved back to her native country Greece after working with Qatar Museums as photography specialist for two years.  In her practice, Olga works with mixed media and mainly with photography. She investigates the idea of freedom and its connection to geopolitics, heritage and social structures, with a special interest in ge...

Mabel is a Brazilian psychologist working at INCA - Instituto Nacional de Cancer, the National Cancer Institute, in Rio de Janeiro.  INCA is a public service within the SUS network - SUS stands for Unified Health System. It's not a single hospital, actually, it's an institute that behaves as an organ of the Health Ministry. Meaning INCA not only offers health assistance, but also professional...

Leo is a filmmaker, writer, director, and cameraman from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I had the great pleasure of meeting Leo and his wonderful wife Mabel at the International Film Festival Ierapetra on Crete in 2018 and we got along brilliantly right from the start. Leo was running with his documentary film "Right There", the story of a Rio policeman, who abhors the use of guns and violence in general...

Jim Kroft is one of my dearest friends, and an especially talented one as well. Music, videography, and photography are the fields where he excels the most, but I have a feeling if I were to catch him with a paint brush in his hand, I would be equally awed. In 2015, Jim and I set out in Fonsi to document the European Refugee Trail for a self-funded project. What had been planned to be 3 weeks turn...

Yellow Van Stories is a podcast hosted by the photographer and filmmaker Bastian Fischer. In the show, he speaks to artists from all over the world, exploring the value of culture in times of crisis and how it has the power to bring us all closer together. Yellow Van Stories is like a spontaneous get-together, celebrating heartfelt exchange in a time where physical distancing and quarantine seem t...