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Omar Havana, 1975 Granada, Spain. Spanish Freelance Photojournalist. Based in Brussels, Belgium. Previously based in France 2017-2021, Nepal 2014-2015 and Cambodia 2008 - 2014 ; 2015-2017. Omar has worked as a professional photojournalist since...
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PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA – WEDNESDAY 28: Luon Sovath meditates inside Samaki Raingsey Pagoda where he lives on Wednesday 28, 2017 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. “I’m a Buddhist monk. I’m Cambodian. I’m a journalist. But also I am human. And as a human, I care about other people and have compassion for everyone, including the police forces that threaten me during every protest,” says Luon Sovath. Photo by Omar Havana for The New York Times Phnom Penh Cambodia
KATHMANDU, NEPAL - FEBRUARY 17: A Shadu, or holy man, proudly shows off his beard inside Pashupatinath temple during the celebration of the Maha Shivaratri festival on February 17, 2015 in Kathmandu, Nepal. Close to one million devotees from different countries attended the Maha Shivaratri festival at the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal. Maha Shivaratri is a Hindu festival held every year to revere the god Shiva and is considered one of the most important festivals in Hindu holy scriptures. Devotees of Shiva fast overnight and give offerings to the god in return for heavenly blessings. Although cannabis is illegal in Nepal, the authorities permit its consumption by Shadus, or holy persons, inside temple premises during the festival as a form of religious ritual, an imitation of a legend during which Shiva smoked cannabis as he came to the forests near the temple. Photo by Omar Havana / Getty Images Kathmandu Nepal
PARIS, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 11: Yann Couellan, Head of FICC trading at BNP Paribas Asset Management, poses for a photo outside the BNP Paribas Asset Management headquarters on September 11, 2018 in Paris, France. 51-year-old Parisian Yann Couellan joined the BNP Paribas Asset Management team in November after spending the last 13 years working in different positions for AXA Investment Managers. Photo by Omar Havana Paris France
PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA – WEDNESDAY 28: Luon Sovath poses for a portrait while sitting on the steps of Samaki Raingsey Pagoda where he lives on Wednesday 28, 2017 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Luon Sovath is one of the main characters of the new documentary “A Cambodian Spring” by videographer Chris Kelly. Although Luon Sovath was able to have attended one of the screenings of the documentary in Canada, he is worried that other people in Cambodia won’t be able to see what he says is the reality of the country as portrayed in the documentary due to potential censorship by the government. Photo by Omar Havana for The New York Times Phnom Penh Cambodia
KATHMANDU, NEPAL - FEBRUARY 17: A Shadu, or holy man, smokes cannabis from a chillum inside Pashupatinath temple during the celebration of the Maha Shivaratri festival on February 17, 2015 in Kathmandu, Nepal. Close to one million devotees from different countries attended the Maha Shivaratri festival at the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal. Maha Shivaratri is a Hindu festival held every year to revere the god Shiva and is considered one of the most important festivals in Hindu holy scriptures. Devotees of Shiva fast overnight and give offerings to the god in return for heavenly blessings. Although cannabis is illegal in Nepal, the authorities permit its consumption by Shadus, or holy persons, inside temple premises during the festival as a form of religious ritual, an imitation of a legend during which Shiva smoked cannabis as he came to the forests near the temple. Photo by Omar Havana / Getty Images Kathmandu Nepal
PARIS, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 11: Yann Couellan, Head of FICC trading at BNP Paribas Asset Management, poses for a photo standing in the main reception hall at the BNP Paribas Asset Management headquarters on September 11, 2018 in Paris, France. 51-year-old Parisian Yann Couellan joined the BNP Paribas Asset Management team in November after spending the last 13 years working in different positions for AXA Investment Managers. Photo by Omar Havana Paris France
BARIYARPUR, NEPAL - NOVEMBER 27: A devotee poses in front of the temple during the celebration of the Gadhimai Festival on November 27, 2014 in Bariyarpur, Nepal. Over two million people attended this year's Gadhimai festival in Nepal's Bara Disctrict. The festival is held every five years at the Gadhimai temple of Bariyarpur and is the world's largest slaughter of animals, during which thousands of water buffaloes, pigs, goats, chickens, rats and pigeons are slaughtered in order to please Gadhimai, the Goddess of Power. Photo by Omar Havana/Getty Images Bariyarpur Nepal
PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA - November 22: Boeung Kak Lake activist Bo Chhorvy stands by the Supreme Court demanding freedom for fellow activist Yorm Bopha, jailed for more than a year in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on November 22, 2013. Since Boeung Kak Lake was leased to a private company in 2007, resulting in the evictions of surrounding communities in 2009, a group of women from the Lake has taken the forefront of the fight for their rights. Although their activism was initially dedicated to saving their homes, they are now some of Cambodia's most well-known, outspoken and fearless activists, becoming an iconic symbol of the fight of human rights and justice in Cambodia. (Photo by Omar Havana) Phnom Penh Cambodia
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - JULY 14: Markus J. Beyrer, General Director of BusinessEurope, poses for a photo sitting at his desk in the company's offices in Brussels, Belgium on July 14, 2022. Photo by Omar Havana for Kurier Austria Brussels Belgium
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - NOVEMBER 09: Andrew Murphy, Head of Buildings and Industry at Ecostandards, poses for a photo in front of a building covered with graffiti describing the European future in the Schuman district where the headquarters of the European institutions are located on November 09, 2022 in Brussels, Belgium. Photo by Omar Havana for Business Post Ireland Brussels Belgium
PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA- SEPTEMBER 04: Tep Vanny's daughter, Ou Kung Panha, sits inside their family home at the former lake on September 04, 2017 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Panha misses her mother badly but she feels proud of her fight for the rights of the people of Cambodia. Vanny was charged with incitement on August 17 after participating in a peaceful protest asking for the release of human rights defenders in Cambodia, in what looked like a message ahead of commune and national elections in Cambodia. Photo by Omar Havana Phnom Penh Cambodia
SAPA, VIETNAM. April 15: Mr. Ly, one of the Hmong Masters of Spirits, smokes tobacco from a bamboo pipe inside his home in a remote village near Sapa, Vietnam on April 15, 2014. Various ethnic minorities - of which Hmong people are the majority - inhabit the area around Sapa, constituting more than 80% of the region's population. Migrating from China in the 18th century, the Hmong people settled in Vietnam’s upland, especially in the northwest. While traditionally horticulturalists who practised shifting agriculture, many Hmong households today live on sedentary subsistence agriculture, based largely on wet rice paddies, dry rice patches and maize cultivation. Photo by Omar Havana. Sapa Vietnam
PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA - August 12: Boeung Kak Lake activist Nget Khun, also known as Mommy, stands holding an umbrella during a demonstration demanding the release from jail of fellow activist Yorm Bopha in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on August 12, 2013. Since Boeung Kak Lake was leased to a private company in 2007, resulting in the evictions of surrounding communities in 2009, a group of women from the Lake has taken the forefront of the fight for their rights. Although their activism was initially dedicated to saving their homes, they are now some of Cambodia's most well-known, outspoken and fearless activists, becoming an iconic symbol of the fight of human rights and justice in Cambodia. (Photo by Omar Havana) Phnom Penh Cambodia