Kristine Sergejeva - Spring Pilgrimage to Cemetery
Photography
Spring pilgrimage to Cemetery is the photography project created as an appreciation to my granny who is now 88. She is the oldest member of our family overliving her daughter, all siblings and her husband, but still wishing to live alone in her house far in the countryside of Latvia, in Varaklani. Every time I am in my motherland, Latvia, I make a trip to her, best of all - alone, so we can chat or just enjoy the common silence together. And every time I come, there is a long walk on our agenda to the local cemetery.
This project is about my granny's first spring pilgrimage to the cemetery after the long and cold winter, when it was not possible to walk there alone. Change of seasons, new births and new expected or unexpected departures from the life, new hopes and new wishes.. and my granny in the middle of this life cycle.
2011, Varaklani, Latvia