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Artist Statement:
In my work I photograph people
who have a deep felt sense of
tradition. For a year of days
beginning in the Autumn of
1999, I lived in a remote
village in the Maramuresh
region of northern
Transylvania, Romania. This
area came to my attention
through my love of Balkan Folk
Dancing. My research revealed
the Maramuresh region to be
unique amongst the former
Soviet Bloc for the way it had
preserved its way of life.
After World War II, for forty
years of communist rule, a few
valleys in Maramuresh escaped
collectivized farming because
of poor soil and hilly
landscape. In the post
cold-war period, preservation
continues because of pervasive
impoverishment which slows the
advancement of modernity into
the reaches of northern
Transylvania.
But nothing will stand still
forever. While the older
generation still don winter
footwear that pre-date the
Romans, the younger generation
flock to market to buy shoes
bearing that ubiquitous swoosh
of western manufacture.
My purpose is to capture and
convey images of their way of
life before it becomes further
compromised by globalization.
In our modern world, we often
feel we have “lost” something
important, something precious.
Though they do not know it ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Robert V. Fullerton
Museum, San Bernardino,
California
2005 Visual Arts Gallery,
University of Wisconsin, Fond
du Lac, Wisconsin
2004 Charleston Heights
Cultural Arts Center Gallery,
Las Vegas, Nevada
2004 Mind's Eye Gallery,
Idaho State University,
Pocatello, Idaho
2003 Romanian Peasant
Museum, Bucharest, Romania
2003 National Museum ...
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Verneda M. Lights
Your work reveals that you have a gift for composition and an ability to seize the moment when you take a picture. I enjoyed the photos. They are very much suffused with the spirit of the people whose lives you have recorded. My medium of expression is digital fine art. I revel in a broad palette, and your statements are in black and white. That's one of the things about wwar that I truly appreciate and enjoy: So many alternatives being looked at with fresh eyes. Keep up the good work.
carl
WOW i think your work is great. I am also a photographer. I really love documentary work and yours is the original theme i have seen in a long time. I finished my degree acouple of years ago and am looking to go on and do a masters, is the work load hard or extremly hard. At the moment i am working on a project documenting amatuer sports such as boxing,fencing and martial arts. I am also documenting my 3 daughters one is 3 and the other 2 are twins who are 6 months old. Also are you going to exhibit your work in England as i would love to see your work properly.If you like you can see my work on this website, just look up carl brightman in the b+w photography section. Merry christmas
Gerret Tol
it's real nice to see, simpel and good as it is.
Roberto Laraia
Hi ,can i know more from your family oryour roots it will,be fine ,because my Nama is also Laraia we come from italy and live at the moment in germany thx by Roberto worldcup champion of Hairstylists
firas awdi
hi ia m firas awdi from lebanon who was born in al khoder a little village in al bekaa and i lived in Connecticut and in Michigan and now i moved to europe to Romania.ere
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