Jeltema transforms the act of photographing into a craft of patience and poetry. She creates silver-gelatin contact prints, albumen prints, experimental works, and hand-colored pieces, each carrying the physical trace of time.
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Margrieta Jeltema
Once a year the statue of San Antonio is carried in a procession through the ancient roads of the town of Bolsena (Italy).
More than ten years ago a young Chinese mother came to Italy, in search for work. She had traveled to Italy, far from her family with whom she left her first born daughter in their small birth town in the greater Shanghai area.
Under the shady branches families gather, children play near fountains, mothers feed their babies, a grandmother reads a book for her grandson, a woman sits knitting, an old man sleeps.
Is Beauty a universal language? Why do we respond to Beauty? What exactly is beautiful? We always fall back on examples; the face of a beautiful girl, but also the lines in the face of a dear friend.