Ordinary lives
Ordinary lives
„People! flung wide and far, born into toil, struggle, blood and dreams, among lovers, eaters, drinkers, workers, loafers, fighters, players, gamblers. Here are…builders of huts … landless, the loved and the unloved, the lonely and abandoned, the brutal and the compassionate — one big family hugging close to the ball of Earth for its life and being. Everywhere is love and love-making, weddings and babies from generation to generation keeping the Family of Man alive and continuing…
Often the faces speak that words can never say. Some tell of eternity and others only the latest tattings. Child faces of blossom smiles or mouths of hunger are followed by homely faces of majesty carved and worn by love, prayer and hope, along with others light and carefree as thistledown in a late summer wing. Faces have land and sea on them, faces honest as the morning sun flooding a clean kitchen with light, faces crooked and lost and wondering where to go this afternoon or tomorrow morning. "
from Carl Sandburg’s exhibition commentary to the Family of Man
The new and old, the ephemeral and the lasting coexist. In face of all the changes and fragmentation that permeate our societies, this series is meant to be a statement also for the continued presence of the Steichenian values. And amongst a most vulnerable community in Europe, gypsies. These environmental photographs have been taken among the members of a large roma family in South-Western Hungary over the course of several years.
„People! flung wide and far, born into toil, struggle, blood and dreams, among lovers, eaters, drinkers, workers, loafers, fighters, players, gamblers. Here are…builders of huts … landless, the loved and the unloved, the lonely and abandoned, the brutal and the compassionate — one big family hugging close to the ball of Earth for its life and being. Everywhere is love and love-making, weddings and babies from generation to generation keeping the Family of Man alive and continuing…
Often the faces speak that words can never say. Some tell of eternity and others only the latest tattings. Child faces of blossom smiles or mouths of hunger are followed by homely faces of majesty carved and worn by love, prayer and hope, along with others light and carefree as thistledown in a late summer wing. Faces have land and sea on them, faces honest as the morning sun flooding a clean kitchen with light, faces crooked and lost and wondering where to go this afternoon or tomorrow morning. "
from Carl Sandburg’s exhibition commentary to the Family of Man
The new and old, the ephemeral and the lasting coexist. In face of all the changes and fragmentation that permeate our societies, this series is meant to be a statement also for the continued presence of the Steichenian values. And amongst a most vulnerable community in Europe, gypsies. These environmental photographs have been taken among the members of a large roma family in South-Western Hungary over the course of several years.
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