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ORIEL MYRDDIN GALLERY CARMARTHEN |
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'ONCE WE WERE BIRDS …' |
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Photographs and Video Films of encounters with the Hungarian Roma |
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Sandi & Edit, Solyom Settlement, Sajokaza July 2009 |
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Tina Carr & Annemarie Schöne |
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9 JANUARY to 20 FEBRUARY 2010 |
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You are cordially invited to the opening on Saturday 9 January at 2.00pm for an informal talk with the artists and at 3.00pm for the launch with Jill Evans MEP |
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The Once We Were Birds blog has followed the progress of the project and shows more images of Tina & Annemarie's extraordinary encounters. It is being updated continually and will be available online in the gallery for the duration of the exhibition. |
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contact Oriel Myrddin 01267 222775 Tina & Annemarie 01559 362843 |
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Oriel Myrddin, Church Lane, Carmarthen SA31 1LH www.orielmyrddingallery.co.uk |
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ONCE WE WERE BIRDS … Journeys to the Roma People in Hungary and Romania
An initial research trip took place in August and September 2008. We made contacts in Budapest, at the Museum of Ethnography, the Roma Parliament, Lumen Foundation and wandered the 8th District of the city where most urban Roma live. We visited the cities of Miskolc and Debrecen where we met people who introduced us to Roma in rural districts of Hungary. We also spent a few days in Oradia, Romania where we visited a Roma School project. In May 2009 we will be setting off in our Transit camper conversion to Hungary where we will stay until the end of August. We will meet many different individuals and communities both rural and urban. Please follow our travel blog at www.oncewewerebirds.blogspot.com
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COALFACES PUBLISHED
This arresting series of documentary photographs shows the life and landscape of five small settlements in South Wales. These communities in the Afan Valley, after the pit closures, had to deal with high levels of unemployment and found themselves with severe problems of adjustment.
Over several years Tina Carr & Annemarie Schöne worked with the residents of the valley to document the place they call home. These photographs, gritty, beautiful, empathetic, sad and humorous, reflect a hardy and feisty attitude, shared by the residents despite the adversity they are forced to face and provide us with a much needed reminder of a community all to easily forgotten about.
The accompanying DVD is a film entitled 'The Thin End of the Wedge' made with the communities of the Upper Afan Valley in 1992 & 1993 funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Coalfaces ISBN 978-1-905762-54-5 Parthian 2008
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The former Co-op, Croeserw, 2008 |
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