Photo expedition in Voranava District 2012: Zhyrmuny, Bjenjakoni, Hajtsjunishki, Kanvjelishki, Bol’tsinki, Hjermanishki, Asava, Paharodna, Nacha, Radun’, Pjeljasa, Zabalats’ Фотавандроўка па Воранаўскім раёне 2012 г.: Жырмуны, Беняконі, Гайцюнішкі, Канвелішкі, Больцінкі, Германішкі, Асава, Пагародна, Нача, Радунь, Пеляса, Забалаць Sorting the potato harvest. Адбор бульбы.
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Photo of the Day for July 3, 2020
Family farming in Polesia, Tsjerablichy 2016. See photos of the day for March 12, 2020 for an explanation of my view why it is more accurate to call Belarusian homesteaders in villages family farmers rather than “peasants”. Сямейнае фермерства на Палесьсі, Цераблічы 2016 г. У кантэксце працягу беларускамі ўладамі савецкіх палітыкаў калектывізаванай сельскай гаспадаркі… Continue reading Photo of the Day for July 3, 2020
Photo of the Day for August 6, 2019
Portraits of Polesia: summer in Azdamichy 2019. The potatoes are growing well; the yards and barns are neat and tidy; the storks are tending to their fledglings (owing to a prolonged dry spell and consequent dearth of frogs in this part of the Pripet Marshes, it has been extremely rare to see more than one… Continue reading Photo of the Day for August 6, 2019
Photos of the Day for October 10, 2018
Portraits of Polesia: Prosja, Tsjerablichy 2018. In her 101st year, granny Prosja has hardly slowed down, and no visit to Tsjerablichy is complete without greeting her as she works in her garden or, here, in her potato patch some distance from her house. Партрэты Палесься: бабуля Прося, Цераблічы 2018 г. Заўсёды прыемна пабачыцца ды пагутарыць… Continue reading Photos of the Day for October 10, 2018
Photos of the Day for June 14, 2018
Cycle of the year: plowing the potato patch. Varsyn’ 2018. The potato is central to the Belarusian diet and, with periods of war, deprivation and destruction seared into the nation’s memory, to maintaining village household reserves of food. Many household plots and plots arbitrarily allocated by the local collective farm are too small to make… Continue reading Photos of the Day for June 14, 2018