Photo of the Day for September 18, 2019

Portraits of Polesia:  four generations.  Azdamichy 2019. Партрэты Палесься: чатыры пакаленьні.  Аздамічы 2019 г.  

Photos of the Day for September 14, 2019

Portraits of Polesia:  patronal feast of the Holy Trinity, Azdamichy 2019. Партрэты Палесься: прастольнае сьвята Сьвятой Тройцы, Аздамічы 2019 г.           Many people from the next-door village of Tsjerablichy, which belonged to the parish of the Holy Trinity until Tsjerablichy built its own church in 2014, returned to Azdamichy for the… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 14, 2019

Photo of the Day for August 21, 2019

Portraits of Polesia:  Prosja (born January 14, 1918).  Tsjerablichy 2019. Great-Granny Prosja has been busy this week helping her daughter Halja with the potato harvest. Партрэты Палесься: бабуля Прося (нарадзілася 14.01.1918 г.).  Цераблічы 2019 г. Гэты тыдзень бабуля Прося капае бульбу з дачкой Галяй.        

Photo of the Day for August 7, 2019

Portraits of Polesia:  Azdamichy 2019. The bench (part XIX):  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… Continue reading Photo of the Day for August 7, 2019

Photo of the Day for June 19, 2019

Grannies keeping watch, Easter Monday (Bright Monday) service, Azdamichy 2019. Бабулі прыглядаюць, Сьветлы панядзелак, Аздамічы 2019 г.