TitleReturn - a journey

Entry description"Return - a journey," consists of a series of train journeys through post communist Eastern Europe to retrace routes my family traversed as stateless refugees at the end of the Second World War. It is a metaphoric quest for lost history, memory and roots.

About the photographerI'm an art and documentary photographer who works on long term personal projects about identity, memory, personal history, displacement and war. I travel frequently to Eastern Europe and Mexico exploring a terrain in earlier stages of my life. My work has been awarded grants, fellowships and prizes from Art Matters, Inc., Aaron Siskind Foundation, Light Work, Arts Link, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Austrian Ministry of Culture, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Society for Photographic Education and Px3, among others. My photographs have been exhibited and published nationally and internationally.