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Dissesnsoid Photographer domtyler has been working on a project called "Foaie Verde".
He sent me a promotional pdf which has this little spiel attached to it:
"Foaie Verde is an unique fusion of photography and music. Award-winning photojournalist Dominick Tyler, violinist Joe Townsend and Romanian folk singer Dana Cordorean-Berciu join forces with the musicians of Opera North to create an extraordinary musical and visual journey across Romania. In the Spring of 2005, Tyler and Townsend visited Romania. In the company of musicians, shepherds and schoolchildren they travelled by road, rail and on foot, deep into the heart of the country. As they went they recorded what they heard and saw, creating a compelling document of a time, a place and a people. Foaie Verde fuses Townsend’s arrangements, compositions and sound design with projections of Tyler’s breathtaking photographs to evoke their journey. This is a timely portrait of a country on the edge of Europe and on the cusp of change. Romania is due to join the EU in 2006 and yet the dense forests of this complex country still hide secrets and treasures."
If you live in Nottingham, Leeds or Salford Quays (or anywhere oop North) you should go and check out the show, more details of which are here:
http://www.operanorth.co.uk/ontperformanceinfo.aspx?productionid=25
I think it looks like it'd be really nice and I was completely blown away by the photos Dom sent me. He has a knack for getting right in there and a genius for taking glowing pictures (as his incredible shots of the Modern Eskimo settlements taken last year attested). Dom's said I could put some of the Romanian photos up here. I was really struck by the way they resembled my minds eye vision of the Deep South of the fifties. Powerful stuff.
He sent me a promotional pdf which has this little spiel attached to it:
"Foaie Verde is an unique fusion of photography and music. Award-winning photojournalist Dominick Tyler, violinist Joe Townsend and Romanian folk singer Dana Cordorean-Berciu join forces with the musicians of Opera North to create an extraordinary musical and visual journey across Romania. In the Spring of 2005, Tyler and Townsend visited Romania. In the company of musicians, shepherds and schoolchildren they travelled by road, rail and on foot, deep into the heart of the country. As they went they recorded what they heard and saw, creating a compelling document of a time, a place and a people. Foaie Verde fuses Townsend’s arrangements, compositions and sound design with projections of Tyler’s breathtaking photographs to evoke their journey. This is a timely portrait of a country on the edge of Europe and on the cusp of change. Romania is due to join the EU in 2006 and yet the dense forests of this complex country still hide secrets and treasures."
If you live in Nottingham, Leeds or Salford Quays (or anywhere oop North) you should go and check out the show, more details of which are here:
http://www.operanorth.co.uk/ontperformanceinfo.aspx?productionid=25
I think it looks like it'd be really nice and I was completely blown away by the photos Dom sent me. He has a knack for getting right in there and a genius for taking glowing pictures (as his incredible shots of the Modern Eskimo settlements taken last year attested). Dom's said I could put some of the Romanian photos up here. I was really struck by the way they resembled my minds eye vision of the Deep South of the fifties. Powerful stuff.
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