New Ball-Saal Exhibition, Joakim Eskildsen, The Roma Journeys

Around the world in 60 pictures….

Cinematic, luminous, color bound as if a body-breath of light, the movement of family to poverty to ache-achieved hope toward middleclass stature, and then the halo of loss…

some of the photographs are simply iconic and I wouldn’t dare to stain them with the weight of words, for they already speak so profoundly and richly, with brilliantly observed nearly Tolstoyian detail…light swirling like death above a town, a god whose outsized the size of the bath/ocean, two girls hunger for the absence of the corner, a family’s indellible loss and memory, stars, mud, skin, hope, nose arched like an aquaduct carrying lost wine, hunger, sandscrit eyes….

an extraordinary collection of photographs which carries the heft and weight of the story of the Romas but, more importantly, the heft and weight of all our lives…

breathtaking, maddening, saddening, remarkable, humane and beautiful work…and above all: the cantilevered bequeathing of hope…

thank you stefan for showing…

cheers
bob

p.s. feel free to post my comment, ‘cause again i’ve forgotten my ball-saal password ;)

I just have to say.. WOW.. what an impressive series of photos!

Hi all. The pictures are nice but don’t tell me much about what they do, too much posed portraits or scenics that yes, have good light and are very pretty. For understand who people are is good to know what they do to live, what they need. Is only my honest opinion. All the best.

Hernan, I understand what you want to say, but think that this was not his approach. still, I see a lot of space and surrounding, what gives me information about the people Joakim has photographed. maybe not so obvious, but there is a lot of hidden information to see.