I ka fotografuar të njëjtit njerëz për më shumë se 30 vite, ndryshimet janë të mahnitshme (FOTO)

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17/02/2016 12:14

Mirëpo, kush do e kishte menduar asokohe që projekti i saj i vogël do të zgjatke për më shumë se 30 vite?

“Unë i kisha filluar portretet në vitin 1982 me asnjë mendim se do t’i vazhdoja ato”, ka thënë Davatz për Business Insider, transmeton lajmi.net.

Ajo pastaj i kishte fotografuar të njëjtit njerëz në vitin 1988, 1997 dhe në vitin 2014.

Projekti tani i mbulon 3 gjenerata të njerëzve, raporton lajmi.net.

Despite being a professional photographer for 40 years, Davatz still found time to work on personal projects like this one.

"I believed very strongly in the project, [I] loved it — considered it my 'life work' and my most important work," Davatz told Business Insider.

A lot changed over the years with Davatz's subjects — not just their looks. Sometimes there was a change of partners, or the subjects became parents and even grandparents.

Davatz's subjects were really eager to work with her. Some of the women from her 1982 portraits encouraged her to continue the project over the years, saying they considered it a telling of their life story.

Staying in touch with her subjects has been pretty easy, Davatz explains, because several of them were friends of hers.

"In 1988, I wrote to them all, asking to inform me of future changes of address," Davatz said. "But for the last series I was very thankful for the aid of Google!"

Davatz says that she and her subjects have become a "photographic family".

"I am very fond of them all. I admire and appreciate the courage they've shown and their loyalty to the project," she said. "I am very thankful."

Davatz did not anticipate that she would continue this series for 30 years. "I never actually decided this [project would continue] at one particular moment," she said. "It was a more or less organic development."

One of the fathers from her subjects said that she should designate a "successor" because he wanted his daughters to be documented as they grew up. But as for continuing this series, Davatz says, "The work is definitely finished, and that's definitely a good feeling."