AGEING YOUNG


  • Photographer
    TAMAS SCHILD
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    freelance
  • Date of Photograph
    2010-2014
  • Technical Info
    DIGITAL

DROPPED OUT FROM SCHOOL, YOUNG ROMA GIRL FROM HUNGARY VERY NEARLY TO BECOME A MOTHER OF FOUR BY THE AGE OF TWENTY THREE.

Story

Dropped out from school, young roma girl from rural Hungary very nearly to become a mother of four by the ageof twenty three.
1) Nelly and her sister Mary in the doorway, with Nelly expecting her second son
2) Two years on, with Nelly's second son in the back Nelly expecting her third and Mary her first child.
3) It's a girl!
4) Same year, Nelly expecting her fourth baby, a love child
5) Due to complicationswith the pregnancy, to save the mother’s life, the pregnancy had to be aborted at a rather late stage. The photo was taken a few days after she is back from hospital, throwing a birthday party for her elder son.

„Do not look for what they haven’t got, but for what they do have, for even the most miserable one has got a treasure of the soul which you do not possess” Sandor Weöres , XXth. Century Hungarian poet
„People! flung wide and far, born into toil, struggle, blood and dreams, among lovers, eaters, drinkers, workers, loafers, fighters, players, gamblers. Here are…builders of huts … landless, the loved and the unloved, the lonely and abandoned, the brutal and the compassionate — one big family hugging close to the ball of Earth for its life and being. Everywhere is love and love-making, weddings and babies from generation to generation keeping the Family of Man alive and continuing…
Often the faces speak that words can never say. Some tell of eternity and others only the latest tattings. Child faces of blossom smiles or mouths of hunger are followed by homely faces of majesty carved and worn by love, prayer and hope, along with others light and carefree as thistledown in a late summer wing. Faces have land and sea on them, faces honest as the morning sun flooding a clean kitchen with light, faces crooked and lost and wondering where to go this afternoon or tomorrow morning. "
from Carl Sandburg’s preface to the Family of Man

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