Re: [Cz-L] This summer in Czernowitz - a photo project

Sylvia... Facinating -- congratulations for continuing this most
interesting journey. Good luck this summer!

Best,
jerome

On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 15:10 -0500, Sylvia de Swaan wrote:
> Dear Czernowitzers,
>
> I'm planning to spend about a month or more in CZ this summer, working
> on a sequel to my "Return" project of the 1990s - a photographic work
> about memory, identity and roots that encompassed several train
> journeys through post communist Eastern Europe that eventually led me
> back to my native city Cz.
>
> This new phase of the work is being sponsored by the (U.S.) Society
> for Photographic Education and endorsed by the Jewish Museum in
> Chernivtsi who are helping me organize my stay. To reciprocate their
> help I will be conducting a photo workshop for young people to
> document Jewish sites around the city which will eventually be
> exhibited at the museum.
>
> http://www.fototazo.com/2012/09/the-image-sylvia-de-swaan-war-game.html
>
> The inspiration for this sequel has come partly through all of you -
> reading your posts and stories that have helped fill in gaps in my
> knowledge of my own history and helped corroborate vague memories -
> also coming back to CZ in 2008 on my way to Russia for the 600
> Anniversary celebrations where I met Cornel Fleming, Charles Rosner,
> Cora Schwartz, Zoya Danilovic and subsequently also Christian Herrmann
> in Cologne, and MImi Taylor in Ithaca, NY - all with strong
> connections to the city and its past and present culture.
>
> I have scheduled my stay to coincide with the Summer Work Camps - plus
> all and any of you who are planning to be there this summer. At one
> point earlier last year I had seen some posts about a reunion that was
> being planned which I was very much hoping to attend, but have not
> been able to find out more about it. My intent is on the one had to
> show the diverse group of people who have been coming each year to
> help clear the cemetery - who they are, what their motivation might
> be...and to do a series of portraits of any Czernowitzers &/or
> descendants, contextualizing them in the context of their past
> ---either holding a photo of themselves at an earlier age or of the
> family that once lived here or before the house where you once lived
> or place or object of personal significance.
>
> I wanted to show you a couple of examples of what I mean by attaching two
> photos - one of Charles Rosner holding his book "Emancipation" at
> the Jewish Museum in 2008. The other of my friend Dorothy Riester
> (a lifelong artist, having nothing to do with CZ) at age 92, holding a
> photo of herself at 22 ....but the system says "no attachments"
>
> In order to fix the dates of my trip, make arrangements for
> accommodations and allow the Jewish Museum time to organize that photo
> workshop, I need to know the exact dates of the Summer Work Camps and
> who of you are planning be there this summer and when.
>
> My email address is: sylvia.deswaan©gmail.com - I would be immensely
> grateful to any of you who would reply
>
> Best wishes to all
>
> Sylvia (Neuman) de Swaan
>
>
> http://www.viewbookphotostory.com/2010/08/return/

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