Sylvia de Swaan

Art & Documentary Photographer
     
Return:The Landscape of Memory
Location: Utica, New York
Nationality: Romanian Born/Now Ukraine
Biography: I’m a Romanian born art and documentary photographer who works on several long-term projects concurrently, often informed or influenced by world events. Thus my longest running work, "Return," currently titled, "Narratives:... MORE
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Return:The Landscape of Memory
Copyright Sylvia de Swaan 2024
Date of Work Dec 1969 - Ongoing
Updated Apr 2020
Topics Black and White, Borders, cinematic diptych, Documentary, Editorial, Fine Art, Human Rights, Judaism, Minority, Peace, Personal, Photography, Religion, Sorrow, Spotlight, Travel, War

"Return/The Landscape of Memory" is about travel, individual and collective memory and identity; return to my roots, transience and loss, metaphor and flashbacks. It's about seeking symbolic ways to depict the bygone and the invisible; about telling open-ended stories that ask questions for which there are no easy answers.

 







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