Foreshadow by Lassal
I remember I was totally curious about Romania before getting there … The workshop with Antonin Kratochvil was called “The Lost Villages of Transylvania” and during the first days of orientation and introduction by our guides we could see what that meant: a disappearing world. People between anguish and hope – with changes that come too fast for most of them to grasp. There was a foreshadowing in the faces that I met, that reminded me of faces I saw in Berlin after the opening of the wall – I was there when the wall came down in Berlin, and the faces I met ate me up from the inside. Especially the ones from the older generation – whilst the younger ones were partying the elderly had already collected life experience enough to know that this was not going to happen without a greater sacrifice …
In Transylvania I saw this expression again, but differently than in Germany I saw it on younger faces too. I wanted to capture that, I decided. But where could I do that without being noticed? In a train, I told myself … passing all the shut down industries, all the signs that sang the happy-Europe-song … In a train, where I could press the shutter of my old and worn down point & shoot without anybody taking note … or so I thought.
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Hi Lassal.
You know what this reminded me of. You know when you see a caged animal, in a circus, thats been there for too long and you , as a human being, can recognize that sense of lost hope in its eyes.
I would just like to know what was going on inside that man’s head. What he was thinking about.
There’s a powerful yearning in this image. A most poignant photograph.
Without the red cloth, I do not think the picture or expression would have the impact you wanted it to impart (IMO), and for that reason, you render the almost inexpressible thru the unique means of photography, which has to elicit a big Bravo! from us all. i also like very much the minimalism of means used.
(I must say at first sight, I thought it was Panos during one of his off moments…. No kidding!)
Lassal, da bin ich mal eine Weile nicht auf BURN…
Herzliche Glückwünsche – zu dieser wundervollen Photographie und zur Veröffentlichung derselbigen!!!
Excellent stuff! Hug, D.