Photo of the Day for February 15, 2011

In 2009 I photographed these girls selling pears at a roadside stand in the booming village of Al’shany in Polesia’s Central Prypjats’ area.  I went back in August 2010 with photos for them and found the girls cheerfully manning their stand. Al’shany 2010/Альшаны 2010 год

Photo of the Day for February 9, 2011: The Bench VI

The Bench VI.  Лаўка (частка VI). What can seem more prosaic than the plain wooden bench in front of almost every village house in Belarus?  And yet the bench is the pivot of social life, the gathering place of generations on a summer’s eve, the village agora, the permanent observation post.  The bench is the… Continue reading Photo of the Day for February 9, 2011: The Bench VI