Month: April 2010

Pohiry 2010/Погіры 2010 год

The Cross I/Крыж (частка І) One of the most evocative sights in Belarus is the cross, placed at a village crossroad or along the road in the countryside.  I have been inspired to photograph crosses in great part by the timeless ethnographic-photographic study “Беларускія народныя Крыжы” (“Belarusan Folk Crosses”) of Mikhas’ Ramanjuk (1944-1997), published by… Continue reading Photos of the Day for April 29, 2010

The Bench I/Лаўка (частка І) 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 village agora, the permanent observation post.  The bench is the witness to the changing fortunes of the village and at… Continue reading Photo of the Day for April 28, 2010: The Bench I

Krahli 2010/Краглі 2010 год

In homage to Vatslau Lastouski, a Belarusan patriot, writer, ethnographer, philologist and politician active in the first three decades of the 20th century.   Lastouski was executed in the Soviet GULAG in 1938.  Lastouski’s photo album of his mid-1920’s ethnographic expeditions to south-central Belarus is preserved in the Frantsysk Skaryna Library in London.  The album… Continue reading Photo of the Day for April 26, 2010

Baranauka 2010/Баранаўка 2010 год

Prazaroki 2007/Празарокі 2007 год

Planting Potatoes, Kamjen’ 2009/Камень 2009 год

In Honor of Belarusan Poets (III)/У гонар беларускіх паэтаў (частка ІІI) Aksana Danil’chyk (Part II)/Аксана Данільчык (частка ІІ) Please see the post for March 10 for part I of my homage to Belarusan poetess Aksana Danil’chyk.  In that post I gave an example of her lyrical poetry.  Here is an example of her lapidary poetic… Continue reading Photo of the Day for April 22, 2010

Zhytkavichy 2010/Жыткавічы 2010 год