Nicosia 2017. ©
This is what happens when a friend from Italy sends expired film stock from a factory that no longer exists, when a Fed 2 camera from Soviet times is bought at a flea market in Georgia, and when there is time for a walk around Nicosia one sunny afternoon in January 2017. Images of what is and what people do in the town where I live.
Here is to appreciating the good things: The farmer’s market, sitting with friends for coffee and playing backgammon, reading the newspaper on a sidewalk, not being concerned with evidence of past days of unresolved conflict, blue skies, trees in parks with slides for children, a new building going up and indicating that there is work, bonds that come from taking pride in local values and customs, the tea room that invites everyone in as it did 40 years ago, a green playing field maintained under the Venetian walls so that kids can practice their soccer skills, old chairs that everyone loves and even some clever graffiti.
This is what happens when a friend from Italy sends expired film stock from a factory that no longer exists, when a Fed 2 camera from Soviet times is bought at a flea market in Georgia, and when there is time for a walk around Nicosia one sunny afternoon in January 2017. Images of what is and what people do in the town where I live.
Here is to appreciating the good things: The farmer’s market, sitting with friends for coffee and playing backgammon, reading the newspaper on a sidewalk, not being concerned with evidence of past days of unresolved conflict, blue skies, trees in parks with slides for children, a new building going up and indicating that there is work, bonds that come from taking pride in local values and customs, the tea room that invites everyone in as it did 40 years ago, a green playing field maintained under the Venetian walls so that kids can practice their soccer skills, old chairs that everyone loves and even some clever graffiti.