Belarus, near the border with Poland: I found a box full of photographic glass plates in an abandoned house in the forest. In the 1930s and 1950s, the local village photographer recorded important events, created portraits of the residents and thus captured the sometimes dramatic times of upheaval - testimonies of an Eastern Europe of diversely mixed cultures. Since these historical recordings, the area has experienced collectivization, the Second World War, the Soviet Union and now, for more than 25 years, the authoritarian regime of Lukashenko.

40 x 53 cm

2023 

 

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