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Sylvia de Swaan

Portraits

I'm a traveler and explorer. The ten submitted photos are informal portraits of people whom I've encountered on my travels both in Eastern Europe and closer to home. Some were transient encounters, others have become friends with whom I've stayed in touch, all have had interesting life stories to tell.

Photos
10
Status
Public
Created
Sep 20, 2019
Updated
Feb 07, 2022
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#People #Portraits #Identity #Transient Encounters #Life Stories

Photos (10)

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Sister Gertrude Morgan, New Orleans, LA
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Hattie Williams teaching herself to play a harp.
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Pauline was a hermit living on a tract of land on Moscow Hill on the outskirts of the Town of Brookfield in Upstate, NY
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Dorothy Reister at 92 holding a portrait of when she was 22.
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Jessie Landecker is a widow who lives in an assisted living home.
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Stefania was being interviewed by Antoniyk, a history major at the University of Czernowitz, about the fate of the Jews who once lived in the nearby small village of Nepolokivtsy, Ukraine
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Prague to Bratislava, fellow passengers from Slovakia who at the begining of the trip were noisy and aggresive by blasting raucous rock music and banging thier beer bottles on the little tables to the annoyance of the other passengers.
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Linda & Paul celebrating the cutting of the "Venus & Mars" at Sea Saint in New Orleans
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Dusty with his son, Duncan, Utica, NY, - Dusty was a poet, a stay at home dad and editor of a literay journal who lived in Utica, NY for a time. We became friends and I would stop by from time to time to take pictures of this stay at home dad and his two sons.
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Renee Rusjan, a visual artist and single mother with her daughter Polona. Polona is holding a drawing she made, depicting the family she would wish to have - with mother and father, sister and brother. Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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