Gorinchem's Tolerantiepad (Tolerance Path)

To start off with, this post has been in the wings since...NOVEMBER.  So, priorities, or as we used to say, the "tyranny of the urgent!"

Over the years I've shown you many reasons why I LOVE LOVE LOVE this city where Astrid and I live here in the Netherlands:  Gorinchem.  Often we both still pinch ourselves, not wanting to live anywhere else on earth.

One reason is because of what this post is about:  TOLERANCE.

The Tolerance Path is a five-kilometer walking route across the rampart, with a hundred large 

portrait photos of Gorcumers that represent and express their feelings with respect and tolerance. 

The exhibition started on 24 November 2018 and is still hanging around our citadel wall,

which Astrid and I often love to walk.

The idea for the Tolerance Path comes from photographer Johannes van Camp's
Tree of Tolerance installation, which gives a cross-section of Gorcum inhabitants.

From all walks of life, young, old, depicted in black and white

 with a self-chosen flower in color that depicts their personal message about respect and tolerance.
Flowers sometimes say more than you can tell.

Several of the 100 photos were difficult to capture straight on.

But you still get the gist of the image.

Of the images I could get straight on, I put them together in collages,

just to give a feeling for the representation.

Plus the two stragglers that didn't fit into the collages!

If I counted right, I was able to capture 95 of the 100 photos.
Five of them were either bent over from the wind or at an angle I could not reach.
[After writing this post, I discovered that all photos are able to be viewed online here.]

Those of you who know the photographic technique of selective coloring
know that this is a manipulation of photography that I absolutely love.
So, OF COURSE, I love this exhibition, if for that alone.

But how can you not love any exhibition that calls us to
TOLERANCE FOR ALL.

YAY for Gorinchem!