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Artist Statement:
In my work I photograph people
who have a deep felt sense of
tradition. For a year of days
beginning in the Autumn of
1999, I lived in a remote
village in the Maramuresh
region of northern
Transylvania, Romania. This
area came to my attention
through my love of Balkan Folk
Dancing. My research revealed
the Maramuresh region to be
unique amongst the former
Soviet Bloc for the way it had
preserved its way of life.
After World War II, for forty
years of communist rule, a few
valleys in Maramuresh escaped
collectivized farming because
of poor soil and hilly
landscape. In the post
cold-war period, preservation
continues because of pervasive
impoverishment which slows the
advancement of modernity into
the reaches of northern
Transylvania.
But nothing will stand still
forever. While the older
generation still don winter
footwear that pre-date the
Romans, the younger generation
flock to market to buy shoes
bearing that ubiquitous swoosh
of western manufacture.
My purpose is to capture and
convey images of their way of
life before it becomes further
compromised by globalization.
In our modern world, we often
feel we have “lost” something
important, something precious.
Though they do not know it ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
2004 HCP Photography
Fellowship, Houston Center for
Photography, Texas
2002-3 Fulbright Senior
Scholarship, Council for
International Exchange of
Scholars, Washington, D.C.
2002-3 Individual Advanced
Research Opportunities (IARO)
Fellowship, International
Research & Exchange Board;
National Endowment for the
Humanities Fellowship,
Washington, D.C.
2003 United States ...
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Kathleen Laraia Mclaughlin Biography:
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Age
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42
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
Married
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| Children |
2
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| Religion |
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| Education |
Masters of Fine Arts |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Balkan Folk Dancing, Contra Dancing, Being a Mom |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Photography Black and White
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Pictorialism - (1895 - 1910)
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| Your Personal Biography |
Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin is a mother, photographer, and educator with an appetite for exploring the world. Wherever she goes, she brings a compassionate and curious lens backed by traditional film. For her efforts at capturing a disappearing world, she has received a Fulbright Senior Scholarship, an IREX IARO Grant (National Endowment for the Humanities), and a Houston Center for Photography Fellowship for her work in Romania. Her images have appeared in PDN, LensWork, Rangefinder, B&W Magazine, Black + WhitePhotography (UK), and The Times Saturday Magazine (UK). Her photographs have been exhibited both nationally and internationally and are in the permanent collections at the Museum of Photographic Art in San Diego, Western Virginia Museum of Art, and the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest.
The Color of Hay: The Peasants of Maramures is Kathleen’s first monograph of photographs. This book will be released in March, 2011. (www.colorofhay.com).
Kathleen received her MFA in Photography from Virginia Commonwealth University. She currently is Adjunct Faculty at Loyola Marymount University and at the Academy of Art University San Francisco (online). Kathleen has been an active member of the Society for Photographic Education and was on the West regional board for four years. You can find more about her photography at www.klmphoto.com.
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