NECESSARY SUPERSTITION: DUTCH SOLDIERS IN AFGHANISTAN (Afghanistan, 2008)
In 2008 Lodewijk Duijvestein visited the Dutch troops in the Afghan province of Kandahar. Upon his arrival, he was struck by the difference between the image of the war in The Netherlands and the everyday Afghan reality. ‘Every day it was a very, very awful war,’ as Duijvestein says. No wonder, then, that of the group of soldiers with whom he hung out on his arrival in Afghanistan no one wore a good luck charm – but three months later, no one was without one.
