Hi, thanks for that link. It's an interesting set of photos, although her writing is rather clunky. It seems that she arrived there a matter of a few days after I left, so I can vouch for the accuracy of her photos. In fact, since arriving back from that area in 1999 I've been telling people what a fascinating project was to be had by spending a year in a village there, and somebody was actually doing it! Just goes to show that photojournalism is about doing it rather than talking about it... I hope she got her MA.
There's a very fine set of photos from Maramures by David Turnley here: http://www.freep.com/photos/romania/index.htm. The title of the essay is "Where time stood still". When Valentin was driving me around Bucovina, just east of Maramures, he showed me a few of what he called 'villages that time forgot'. It was in one of these that he took his celebrated photo of my arse: http://www.web-options.com/valentin/wbw6[1].jpg. One of the things I strongly approve of in the essay by Turnley is that he gives us the people's names. This is forgotten too often in a lot of photojournalism (I think Salgado is particularly guilty of this), and it makes the people ciphers only, or symbols, rather than people with whose individual experience we can empathise and thereby learn something about the human condition. Better stop before I get too pretentious. It's a fascinating part of the world. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuesday, March 12, 2002, 8:06:25 PM, you wrote: > http://www.leafpile.com/photos.htm > just stumbled across this site - thought I'd pass it on... > Regards > Jim Brooks - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
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