East
Photographs 1998-2013
I grew up during the Cold War, when the world could end at any moment, and our ‘enemies’ were hidden behind an Iron Curtain. Once that curtain was pulled back, I spent many years exploring and striving to understand the ‘other’. Over time I found uneven, contrasting destinies in the long aftermath of Eastern Europe's communist era: war in Kosovo and questions of guilt in Serbia; tourism and uneasy 'progress' in Prague and Poland; tranquility on the Romanian plains where a revolution was born; post-post-Soviet Tallinn; a poisoning and an Orange Revolution in Kiev; isolation and questions of identity in Belarus. I found people and places that I loved very much, that transformed me. It was not a search for the news, but for the essence of place during an epochal period of transition. Of course that transition continues.
