Photo survey of the patrimony of Valozhyn District 2018 (part II). Фотавандроўка па спадчыне Валожынскага раёна 2018 г (частка II). Granny raking leaves, Mil’kaushchyna. Бабуліна восеньская ўборка, Мількаўшчына.
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Photo of the Day for April 10, 2022
Early spring in Polesia: a delivery of logs to be chopped for wood to heat the hothouse and a reserve supply to heat the house and kitchen oven next winter, Azdamichy 2012. Раньняя вясна на Палесьсі: дрэва на ўцяпленьня парніку й запас на хаты, Аздамічы 2012 г.
Photos of the Day for September 28, 2019
Village fair, Vjalikaje Maljeshava 2019. Вясковы фэст, Вялікае Малешава 2019 г.
Photos of the Day for December 22, 2018
Granny Prosja (born January 1918) making whisk brooms in the autumn light. Tsjerablichy 2018. Бабуля Прося (нар. у студзені 1918 г.) венікі вязе ў восеньскім сьвятле. Цераблічы 2018 г.
Photos of the Day for February 13, 2018
One-year wake (paminki – памінкі) for Maryja Mal’tsjevich. Tsjerablichy 2018. After a memorial service in church and visit to the grave, family members host a ritual meal in the home where the deceased died. The paminki cycle can include up to seven ritual meals at set intervals over the year following burial. These photos show… Continue reading Photos of the Day for February 13, 2018
Photo of the Day for May 28, 2017
Belarus in Faces (part CCXX): grannies during Marian Month (May), Prudy 2013. These grannies were chatting on a bench after praying at a village Marian shrine — villagers in the Naliboki Wilderness (Nalibotskaja pushcha – Налібоцкая пушча) scrupulously observe the tradition of daily communal prayer to the Virgin Mary at roadside shrines. They are holding… Continue reading Photo of the Day for May 28, 2017
Photo of the Day for May 4, 2017
The bench (part XVI): spring evening conversation. Azdamichy 2014. 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 May 4, 2017
Photo of the Day for April 20, 2017
Belarus in spring: haystack from the previous year and new fence. Filipinjaty 2014. Беларусь увесну: леташні стог і новы плот. Філіпіняты 2014 г.