I just returned from Kiev then spent two weeks fighting with almost NO sleep. I now am sleeping but very strange hours, especially for me. I'm usually such a night owl! I sleep from 8 pm - 5 am. shrug... but at least I'm getting sleep. wee!
While in Kiev, I went to a place called Babi Yar. It is now a park and a set of monuments. But in 1941, it was the place where more than 30,000 Jewish citizens were killed during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine. They took the city and destroyed this many Jews in a matter of 2 days. I can't even imagine that. While in that park, I took many pictures of the amazing sculpture and the other monuments. But the most amazing thing I could imagine was this soil.
It had been a wooded ravine. Then, the killing ground of Kiev. Now, a park. While I was there, a girl was photographing another girl, a group of children came through with their parents, people walked their dogs. Just a normal park. I had to shoot the soil. The soil of Babi Yar. It seemed to really say something, call out to me. The people of Kiev have absorbed this dark history as part of their lives. They do not live it, but exist with it. There is just so much there, I cannot even begin to explain it well...
I might be crazy, but there was a sense of depth there that I could not pass up.
On a lighter note, check out Superball's set. : ) I didn't want to leave this post so dark:
http://suicidegirls.com/members/Superball/albums/site/9390/
LOVES!!
While in Kiev, I went to a place called Babi Yar. It is now a park and a set of monuments. But in 1941, it was the place where more than 30,000 Jewish citizens were killed during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine. They took the city and destroyed this many Jews in a matter of 2 days. I can't even imagine that. While in that park, I took many pictures of the amazing sculpture and the other monuments. But the most amazing thing I could imagine was this soil.
It had been a wooded ravine. Then, the killing ground of Kiev. Now, a park. While I was there, a girl was photographing another girl, a group of children came through with their parents, people walked their dogs. Just a normal park. I had to shoot the soil. The soil of Babi Yar. It seemed to really say something, call out to me. The people of Kiev have absorbed this dark history as part of their lives. They do not live it, but exist with it. There is just so much there, I cannot even begin to explain it well...
I might be crazy, but there was a sense of depth there that I could not pass up.
On a lighter note, check out Superball's set. : ) I didn't want to leave this post so dark:
http://suicidegirls.com/members/Superball/albums/site/9390/
LOVES!!
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Hey, sorry I must've ment to reply to this but completely forgot to.
I'm now working at a gamestation store its great, It'll keep me happy untill I find a some graphic work.
Because I've been working full time my portfolio and site have really taken a back seat ><;
I hope your neck got better x