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After receiving a cell phone with a camera--the only one in my small town--I began to use the photograph (and journal) to document my existence—my life, my daily rhythms, my friends, my environment. It is a visual document, almost a journal, of my youth after the immediate shadow of Communism and restricted borders had passed, but one that still bears the weight of that memory. Very significantly, my generation was the first to be able to leave the former Eastern Bloc with the fall of the wall. The thousands of photographs taken during this time were later conceived and exhibited as photographs and as large scale projections in two bodies of work called Live for The Weather (2017) and Youth is Dark (2022).
